School: Rath Sionnaigh
- Location:
- Rashenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1122, Page 137
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“There were two men who had humps on them.”
There were two men who had humps on them. On one Hallow Eve night on of the men went out to the hill to look for a horse. When he heard the nicest singing he ever heard. and this was what they were saying. Monday. Tuesday. Monday. Tuesday, and the man answered Wednesday. It was the fairies that were in it and they took him in, and took the hump of him, and they told him to go home. The other man thought if he would give them a new word, that the hump might be taken of him also. On the next Hallow-Eve night, he went out to the hill, and he heard the same singing, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on(continues on next page)