School: Balrath (1) (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Pharthaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)When the woman came in she saw that the cake was not touched. They began to think that he was not their own boy. There was a man who knew all about the fairies and their doings. The people went to him and he told them to go to a certain lake and that they would see their boy riding a white horse and that there would be a lot of them in it and that he would be riding the last horse and that he would go out a certain gap and to catch him but not to speak or the woman of the house not to speak.
The fairies did everything in their power to make them speak but they did not and they brought the boy home to his mother and the fairy who was in the house spit into the woman's face and jumped out through the window and never was seen any more.
- Collector
- Kathleen Fagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foyran, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Fagan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Foyran, Co. Westmeath
