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   “There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”

   

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   boys on the town came and they made a laughing stock of them, and the battered skull of their mother. So the two brothers went home and brought their mother with them and they never said a word to each other. When they got home they vowed that they would have revenge on their step-brother. That night they went to their brother's land and they killed all the cattle that he had. Then they went home quite contented with themselves. When Jack woke up in the morning he found all the cattle dead, and he knew well enough who was after doing it but he never let on a mite. He went around to all the neighbours houses and he asked them all to come and take the skin of the cattle that were dead and then take all the meat leaving the skin with him. All the neighbours came and

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   History Edit

   Date

   20 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT1119: The Ogre Kills his Own Children

   AT1735: “Who Gives his Own Goods shall Receive it Back Tenfold.”

   Folktales index—relevant types

   AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Peadar Ó Dorcaigh