The little shoes
The little shoes is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 16, which they translated from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker in 1825 .
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Mr Cote asked Marie Cogan on the gateway to Kilmallock to tell her what she knew from father and mother about the Cluricaun , although she never saw one herself: Her father's father heard a hammering in the stable in the evening after cutting the peat and immediately thought it was one is and found the little one with a red nightcap whistling and making shoes. He grabbed it and asked for his money. The cluricaun pretended to get it and hopped away, laughing. The grandfather was angry. He kept the shoe, the cutest that mother had ever seen.
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According to Grimm: It is often said that instead of money, at least the Cluricaun's shoes are left behind. A public paper in Kilkenny reported such a case and had the shoes inspected in the editorial office.
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 190–191, 265. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; the text follows the edition: Irish Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer , Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)