School: Craig Dhubh
- Location:
- Cregduff, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giobúin
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- (continued from previous page)every day without speaking or laughing.Next day he went to the "lios" and heard the fairies talking "A year today she was stolen" said a first one
"What use is she to him when she will not speak" said a second "She will if he pulls three ribs out of her hair" said a third fairy. The man was listening to all this talk and he went home
He waited until he got a chance and then pulled them. The moment he did she spoke to himHe asked her name and she told him. She also told him she lived a long way off. and that her father was a very rich man. He brought her home and afterwards married her.- Collector
- Annie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappacurry, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Cappacurry, Co. Mayo