School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)
- Location:
- Adare, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Mechtildes
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- (continued from previous page)down by a tree to take a rest. As she lay down a dwarf came up to her and told her that in a weeks time she would not be loved by anyone and that there should be great sorrow in her place. She went home and told her father and he said she should go again the next day and ask the dwarf the meaning of what he told her. She did so and she lay down under the same tree and instead of a little dwarf she saw a big giant approaching her. She got frightened but she did not move. He came up to her and said that she should go to his palace to a banquet which was to be held there. She got a fright but followed him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80