School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)
- Location:
- Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 404
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- (continued from previous page)husband came in, he sneezed three times as the fairy had said. His wife did not say "God bless us" until the third time. Then she said "God bless us," "it is better to have a bad man itself rather than no man." Then the fairy appeared to her and was very angry with her, and that she would not help her, when she did not obey her rules. At once the fairy vanished and the woman related the story to her husband.
He promised her that he would never drink again, and he kept his promise. In former times people believed that if a person sneezed and the people who heard him did not say "God Bless Us" the person who sneezed would be brought by the fairies but that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Mc Nicholas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curneen, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Nicholas
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curneen, Co. Mayo
