School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)and that perhaps in time the child might regain his health once more. The creature gave them a frightful lot of trouble and they were nearly out of their minds attending on him from morning till night.
One day a strolling woman happened to come to the door & when the woman of the house opened it the beggar-woman asked for alms and when getting the alms she looked at the woman & she saw that she was in great trouble. She asked if anything was wrong. She was invited to enter. The woman told her story to the old beggar-woman. The beggar woman listened intently to the story & she said to the woman to give her permission & she wouldn't be long curing the child. The woman brought her to where the changeling was. She looked at him cringing & whining for some time. "Carry the cradle to the kitchen said the beggar-woman & put it near the fire" The woman did as she was told. "Go out now & bring in the griddle" said the beggar-woman(continues on next page)
- Collector
- R. Rellis
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny
