School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 182
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“The boy went back to his father and he lived happily for a while.”
(continued from previous page)each part again into twenty parts until he did not leave as much of the snake as he could put in his pipe. The witch was the snake and in a second a large hole came in the ground and the boy went in and found the witch's den and he got her wand, and everything belonging to her. He took three of wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye and touched it with his wand and immediately all the crops were cut down and stored away. He built a beautiful mansion and invited his father and sister to live with him in it. They came and the lived happily ever after.
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Niadhóg
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunree, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathfran, Co. Mayo