Scoil: Ballinkillen, Muine Beag

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Witch Child of Suncroft (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   selection of reels, jigs and hornpipes. Bob got ready to run but just then the hatch lifted and the woman came in. In a flash the bagpipes were under the pillow and the yelling commenced worse than ever. "Isn't that a divil" she says. "Mam" says Bob "you'r right though you don't know it". He called her outside and told her of what had happened. She told Bob of a little man who was supposed to have been in the fairies but had incurred their displeasure. They threw him out and now he was well like and reported to have antidotes for all the fairies spells. They both went to him and put the matter before him. He came to the house and standing near the cradle began to chant:

   "Toadling left and darling gone
   Taken by the witch
   Throw her down and draw her teeth
   Then she will do what she is bid
   and show as where the babe is hid".

   Then he got a drake and plunged it in a bucket of boiling water. All this time the eyes of the nipper in the cradle were popping out and when the man chanted -

   "Strip the cot pull off the sheet

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Robert Doyle

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

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