School: Caonach (roll number 14923)
- Location:
- Keenagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eachmharcaigh
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- (continued from previous page)cottage grown green with ivy. The children did not follow him in, but after a while an old woman came out and brought them in and gave them fruit to eat. She pressed them to eat more, and said it would improve their flavour, (as she meant to give them to her son who was a giant, to eat). She then said she must be off to the woods, and she went out closing the door behind her.
Down jumped the little man, and said, "That woman is a cruel witch and she means to give the two of ye to her son who is a big giant" He also told them that he was a prince who was changed into a little man by the cruel witch."Then" said the children "is there any way we can be freed?" "There is indeed" said the little man, "if you bring me the black-handled knife that lies on the window in the square room which is lit by a hundred lamps." And how are we to(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Tom O' Hara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keenagh Beg, Co. Mayo
