Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. A Tale about Cromwell (continued)

   

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   thought also that if they did manage to get them under control that the woman mightn't have any more bees in the place. But when the woman threw out four or five other swarms of bees the soldiers had no chance at all of keeping the horses under control and away they went as fast as lightning and some of the soldiers got such a fright that they fell off the horses. When they were gone a few hundred yards they brought the horses to a standstill, and they considered returning to the castle and taking the woman out of it but the bees followed em up and stung the horses and the men again and they had to retreat again as fast as possible. They didn't come to the castle for a few days after that. They came on then again and wan of em opened the big door leading in to the kitchen and the moment he did there was a swarm of bees met him in the door, and stung him so much that he faintest

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   History Edit

   Date

   10 Eanáir 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Dake