School: Leithead (roll number 5480)

Location:
Lehid, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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    story. He set her free and brought her to his own house. After a while he got married to her. In the mean time her father got sick. The thorn got stuck on him, every day it was getting larger. There was a son born to her she did not baptise it. She told her husband that she had to see her father. She brought her son with her When she came into the room he welcomed her and she picked his thorn. She said lanb gan baiste is duit-se táim a ínnsint. My step mother be lied me it was she who burned the hay shed and the cow houses
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    Folktales index
    AT0706: The Maiden Without Hands
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Joe Guihan
    Gender
    Male