{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat16_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat16_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat16_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/flat/flat16.htm","summary":"This is a piece of collected Irish folklore, presented as a dialogue between a curious gentleman (Mr. Coote) and a local woman (Molly Cogan) near the town of Kilmallock. Molly recounts a story passed down through her family about her grandfather encountering a Cluricaune \u2014 a supernatural cobbler figure related to the leprechaun \u2014 hammering and whistling in his stable at night. The grandfather catches the creature, demands its magic purse, but makes the classic folkloric mistake of loosening his grip, allowing the Cluricaune to escape laughing, leaving only the tiny shoe it had been making. The story is notable for its layered transmission \u2014 Molly never witnessed any of it herself, her mother had seen the shoe but not the creature, and the grandfather is the sole eyewitness \u2014 which the text treats as entirely ordinary and credible. This chain-of-testimony structure, combined with the mundane domestic setting (a tired mare, a stable, drawing turf), reflects how oral folklore grounds supernatural claims in the rhythms of everyday rural life. The piece reads as an early 19th-century antiquarian collection of Irish peasant tradition, preserving dialect and narrative voice as part of its documentary purpose.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Fairy Legends and Traditions: The Little Shoe","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":561}