School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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- (continued from previous page)course he called the two, a few times to be quiet, but that was all he had by it, for they took no notice of the tailor.
At length and last when his patience was worn out, the mother came in, and at the winking of an eye, there was quietness in the house for the twins jumped into the cradle.
When the tailor told the widow what was after happening, she was not surprised.
She said she was after visiting a "woman of knowledge" who was living on the side of the mountain, and she told her it was how the twins were snatched away that May Eve when she forgot to put out the basin of cream for the "Good people" and the two encumbrances were left instead of them.
- Collector
- Nora Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolagh More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Miss O' Mahony
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
