School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)
- Location:
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 061
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- (continued from previous page)"Open, open, wood and tree and beam! they cried to the door.
"I cannot," said the door, "for the beam is fixed in the jambs and I have no power to move.
"Open, open, cake that we made and mingled with blood; they cried again.
"I cannot, said the cake, "for I am broken and bruised, and my blood is on the lips of the sleeping children. Then the witches rushed through the air with great cries, and fled back to Slieve-namon, uttering strange curses on the spirit of the Well, who had wished their rain; but the woman and the house was left in peace and a month dropped by one of the witches in her flight was kept hung up by the mistress as a sign of the night's awful contest; and this mantle was in possession of the same family from generation to generation for five hundred years after.
- Collector
- Teresa Curtis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocklong, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emly, Co. Tipperary
