School: Stillorgan (roll number 2472)
- Location:
- Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: -
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 180
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Stillorgan
- XML Page 180
- XML “Frog-Lore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Hark! What is that familiar "kruk", "kruk" from the pond. It is a family of bright-eyed frogs staring up at us as they chatter. let us linger and listen. "Peet, pe-weet, kruk, kruk, kruk."That is the way they chatter as they hop and flop about the marshy, stagnant pools where they love to congregate is sociably.They have many enemies besides the thoughtless village boys who love to persecute and torment them. The one they dread most is the common snake which will even venture into the water and swallow the frogs in spite of kicks, cries, and struggles. The heron is another enemy which generally lives close to a pond.Frogs are sometimes used as bait by fishermen but it is a cruel thing to use the poor creature for this purpose for if the fish does not fancy to take him within a certain time poor froggie will be drowned. Drowned! A frog drowned and perhaps some of you will inquire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Licken
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brewery Road, Co. Dublin
