School: Beárna, Galbally (roll number 12655)

Location:
Barna, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
C. Ó Máirtín
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    man was on the gallows he called his mother, and the people around the gallows thought it was to say something to her before he died but instead of telling her anything he bit off her ear, because he stole when he went to school first, and she never told him to stop steeling
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0001: The Theft of Fish
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynamuddagh, Co. Limerick