School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 392
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- (continued from previous page)witch said she must have broken her fast and lock in all the food to-night so that she can not get any in the morning. Her step sister kept a bit of bread for her to eat in the morning. So she went off to the well and in two hours later she returned from the well and her step mother was wild when she saw her. Then she went off to the witch again to know why did she return and the witch told her that she must have broken her fast and she told her to be sure and lock in all the food to-night. So the step mother locked in all the food and locked in her own daughter as well. So the poor girl went off to the well fasting and never returned. Then when she went off to the well she did not know where she was going and she went out in the road and she met a woman and the woman asked her where was she going. Then the girl answered and said she did not know and the woman touched her with a rod and turned her into a bag of flour(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
