School: Leithead
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)the river and beat her across it with sticks and stones. When she reached the other side she was so frightened she wouldn't go back, so she went to a neighbour's house. When they saw her there, they hunted her back again she got pneumonia, and her people thought the fairies mistreated her and they were cursing them. After a while she got worse and in the end she died.
My mother told me this story
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