School: Leithead (roll number 5480)

Location:
Lehid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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    said that his mother had a garden of cabbage. If a person put a hound into the garden and to have he go chasing a hare he would not have travelled a leave of cabbage during the week." The thing did not say anything, but he asked him "to come and see the fine corn he had". The boy went we to see it, but it is only like grass besides the corn we have at home.
    One day he said that he went into the corn field and that he stood up on a blade of corn. When he was so high up he did not know how to come down, So he saw a house on the air and he went into it. He saw a fox inside and the fox asked him what he wanted. He told him how he
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    Folktales index
    AT0852: The Hero Forces the Princess to Say, “That is a Lie.”
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila F. O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Peter Healy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tragalee, Co. Kerry