School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)
- Location:
- Grange West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Díomsaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0377, Page 241
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)The little man told him that every time he would open the purse two little men would be inside and whatever he would ask them to do they would do it immediately. So the poor man took the purse and the shilling and went home.
When he arrived home his wife wife was sitting on a chair blowing the fire. When she saw him she asked him what he got for the cow. She had to ask him three times before he answered her. After a while he told her he sold the cow for a shilling and a purse. When she heard this she abused him and said that he should go to bed without his supper.
Then he said, "Open purse, open purse". The purse opened and two little men came out and beat his wife with a blackthorn stick until she fell unconscious on the floor. Then he said, "Close purse, close purse". The two little men went into the purse with the blackthorn stick.
Have an hour after that he said the same words and the two little men came out with half-crowns and shillings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mchael Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Acres, Co. Cork
