School: Cromadh (C.) (roll number 9307)

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   done. However she was still alive but biddy said that the fairies were all around her. "When the goats will come in tomorrow" said she "do not say God bless them." They went home and did as they were told and the goats dropped dead, but the child get all right only that she walked in her sleep every night after for seven years.

   

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   Once there lived an old miser who hated to pay his workman his wages. At the beginning of the year he made a bargain with the boy whichever of them found fault with the other was to have his ears cut off. Well, this worked out very well for the miser, for when the end of the year came he treated his boys so badly that they had to grumble with it, and then rather than have their ears cut off, they ran away without any pay. However, this boy came to him, and he proposed his usual bargain. The boy said he would agree. Not long after they boy was sent out to plough a field of bane. On the way he

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   Folktales index

   AT1000: Bargain Not to Become Angry

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Farrell

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Croom, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs Farrell

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Croom, Co. Limerick