School: Baile an Chaisleáin

Location:
Castletownshend, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Donnabháin
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    There was a woman long ago and she had a son eighteen years, who never went out, so they called him "Myles in the Ashes".

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    message." So he drove them all in front of him right up to the man's hall-door. The man said that he would give him all his money and his daughter to marry if he took them away again. So he drove away the devils and banished the ghosts that were in the man's house. He married the man's daughter and lived happily afterwards.
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    Folktales index
    AT0326: The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Cheallaigh
    Gender
    Female