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{{Short description|Irish fairy tale collected by Thomas Crofton Croker}}
'''Brewery of Eggshells''' is a Welsh [[fairy tale]] collected by [[Joseph Jacobs]] in his ''Celtic Fairy Tales''.<ref>Joseph Jacobs, ''Celtic Fairy Tales'', [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/celtic/breweryofeggshells.html "Brewery of Eggshells"]</ref>
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|Image_Caption = Changeling twins illustrated by [[John D. Batten]], 1892
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|Origin_Date = 1825
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'''Brewery of Eggshells''' is an Irish [[fairy tale]] collected in 1825 by [[Thomas Crofton Croker]] in his first volume of ''Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.''<ref>[[Thomas Crofton Croker|Croker, Thomas Crofton]] (1834). [https://archive.org/details/fairylegendstrad00crokrich Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland vol. 1]. p28 London: John Murray. Retrieved 6 November 2017.</ref>


==Synopsis==
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Brewery of Eggshells
Changeling twins illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892
Folk tale
NameBrewery of Eggshells
CountryIreland
Origin Date1825
Published inFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

Brewery of Eggshells is an Irish fairy tale collected in 1825 by Thomas Crofton Croker in his first volume of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.[1]

Synopsis

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A woman had to leave her twin babies alone for a time. When she returned, she saw two elves in blue petticoats cross her path. The babies looked the same, but would not grow. She and her husband argued about whether the children were theirs. A wise man told her to make pottage in an eggshell, as if she intended to feed the entire troop of harvesters with it. When she did, the children exclaimed on it as something they had never seen, though they were older than acorns grown into oaks. She threw them into the water, which made their own parents take them back and give back the twins.

References

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  1. ^ Croker, Thomas Crofton (1834). Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland vol. 1. p28 London: John Murray. Retrieved 6 November 2017.