School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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   “Once there lived a cruel witch who used t eat children.”

   

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   So the girl put down the pot. The witch told the boy to come up out of the room. She peered into the pot to see was the water hot enough. She stooped so far over the pot, that the boy and girl were able to shove her in.
   When they had the lid on her, they opened the door, and the father and mother were outside.
   They went home and put down the kettle and made the tay and if they don't live happy, that we may.

   

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   AT1121: Ogre's Wife Burned in his Own Oven

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sean Reynolds

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lisduff, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Jim Cummins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Correen, Co. Leitrim