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[Olga Meerson]

Yes, "to fill up A [whole] bagful with fairy-tales". Or 
perhaps, 'to tell a bagful of yarns'?

PS Robertjan, thank you for citing my stuff on the Old Woman in 
"The Fish and the Fisherman," re: her possible genesis in 
Catherine II :)

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