Week 13 Reading Notes: Brewery of Eggshells

There was once a couple with twins that lived in a cot known as Twt y Cwmrws. One day the women was called to her neighbors and had to leave her twins behind which she was not happy about. Later, on her way home, she came across a few elves which scared her. When she returned her children were okay. Soon, they realized something was wrong with the twins when they never grew. One day the woman went to a wise man to see what could be done. He told her to meet reapers and give them egg shells with potage in them. If the children speak after this then they must be thrown into the lake. The children then said "Acorn before oak I knew, an egg before a hen, but I never heard of an eggshell brew a dinner for harvest men." She then threw them into the lake and got her real children back.
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