School: Radharc na Féile (roll number 14156)
- Location:
- Abbeyfeale West, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0495, Page 141
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- A Cruel StepmotherThere was once a boy who had a cruel stepmother. One day she gave him some poison in his food. His father had an enchanted white bull who told the boy about the poison. The bull told Jack to tip his horns and food and drink came forth. The stepmother wondered why Jack was not pining away.One day she told her story to a fortune teller. The fortune teller told her to kill the bull and that she would succeed in killing Jack. The stepmother though of a plan. She told the farmer that she was ill and anything wouldn't cure her except the meat of a white bull. The bull knew what was going to happen and he told Jack(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Denis Downey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmaniheen West, Co. Kerry
