School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)

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   “There was once a widow named Bridie Colman and she lived in Connemara.”

   

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   turned it. Then the stout began to flow and he did not know what would he do, and at last he thought of a plan. He took a plate and began to throw plates of flour on the stout trying to stop it until he had all the floor on one mess.
   Then he sat down in the corner and when his mother came in and saw what had happened she had to turn out again and tell the guests not to come that her son was sick. The next day she went to the fair with a cow and sold her, then she came home and left the money in a corner of the chest.
   She then told Páid not to tell anyone where the money was left. The next Sunday his mother went to Mass and it happened that a tramp came in to Páid for charity and Páid told him to go down to the chest and that he would get bread in it. The tramp went down and then a thought struck Páid that he might steal

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   History Edit

   Folktales index

   AT1600: The Fool as Murderer

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peter Conway

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dooleeg, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Bridget Conway

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dooleeg, Co. Mayo