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An old Traveller and his wife are given three wishes by a fa...

Date 15 February 1979
Track ID 65850
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1979.15.5

Original Tape ID

SA1979.015

Summary

An old Traveller and his wife are given three wishes by a fairy, but waste them and end up with nothing.

An old Traveller man and woman were sitting by the roadside having a rest and a smoke when the man saw a little fairy man in Highland dress on top of his pipes. The fairy gave the Travellers three wishes. In a town the woman saw some tattie beetles [potato mashers] hanging outside an ironmonger's shop and wished she had one. It was in her hand immediately. The old man was annoyed at her for wasting a wish, and said he wished the tattie beetle was stuck up her [Betsy Whyte does not say the word]. This happened, and they had to use the last wish to get the tattie beetle out.

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

Scots

Genre

Story

Collection

SoSS

Classification

AT750

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good