School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)

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1. A Story

   “There was a man one time and he had a wife and seven children.”

   

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   There was a man one time and he had a wife and seven children. The youngest child was only six months old when the mother died. This left the man in a bad state as the oldest girl was only seven years.
   The man had oats in the barn at this time, and every morning when he went out he used to find all the oats scattered round the barn. One night he decided to stay up and watch to see who was scattering the oats. At mid-night what came into the stable but ten women on white horses and started firing chaff at one another. The man caught hold of one of them and who did he catch but his own wife."I can't stay with you now" she said "but we will pass her at twelve o' clock tomorrow and throw an old coat over my head and then I can stay with you.
   So next day the man went out and at twelve o' clock the women and horses came in the back door of the stable. The man threw the coat over his wife and she fell off the horse. The horse went off then and was never seen again.
   The woman had a little red coat and she told her husband to put it where she would never see it again. The man went up to the top of the house and put it under the thatch. One day as she was churning milk a whirl wind came in the door and blew up the thatch of the house. The woman looked up and what did she see but the red coat. She waited to finish the churning and when she had it finished she kissed

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Keogh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killarriv, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pat Fahy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killarriv, Co. Galway