School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- (continued from previous page)to him and said you claim to be a brave Prince and here is a task that will suit you. I want you to go to the fairy tree and get me three berries from it. Terence did not like the job at all but he set off without any argument. No adventures befell him until he reached the forest and he was just into the darkness of the wood when he heard a piteous cry. Peeping through the branches he saw a great big spiders web and caught in it was a tiny fairy. So he broke the web and released the fairy
Now it happened the fairy was the queen of the fairies and she was so grateful that she wanted to reward him and he told her that he was trying to get three berries from the fairy tree. She said that is impossible she said for a giant gaurds the tree and his poisonous breath will kill you before you can reach(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Laoghaire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Daniel O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
