School: Enniscorthy (Pres. Convent) (roll number 6058)
- Location:
- Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Sr. Aingeal
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0894, Page 057
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Enniscorthy (Pres. Convent)
- XML Page 057
- XML “Old Stories”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 57Peggy Codd
Once upon a time there was a woman who had an evil eye, and any young creature she looked at fell dead instantly. There was a certain blacksmith and it was said if the harmed creature would be restored to life if it were plunged into the water which the black-smith used for cooling purposes. A woman had twenty-four young ducks, her name was Mrs O'Neill. The woman with the evil eye looked at the ducks and they fell dead instantly. Mrs O'Neill(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Codd
- Gender
- Female
