School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)the girl was cutting rushes to thatch the little house and a voice came, and told her, that she should marry the "Pus muc". That was a man who had a pig's head. On the following day a motor-car came for her to get married. She had to marry the "Pus much", or else she should be hanged. She got married, and every night her husband used to go out eating the dead bodies in the graveyards. She fell very sick, and, she told the "Pus muc" to go for her mother. He went off for the little thatched house. He dressed himself in her mother's clothes, and he came into the room to her "Mhuise", says he, "what's the matter with you now". "Oc ón" says she, "my husband is going out every night(continues on next page)
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- Eibhlís Ní Chorradáin
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