School: Kildavin, Ferns
- Location:
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: Tadhg de Brí
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- Witch.Witch can be played by any number of girls and boys. The least is four. One takes the part of a maid, another the mother, and another the witch. When the mother is going to town she counts her children by the days of the week, and tells the maid not to let anything happen to them. When the mother is away the witch comes and asks the maid for a piece of bread or something like that. When the maid is getting it the witch takes one of the children and runs off with him. The mother comes home, and finds one of her children gone, scolds the maid and goes to town again. The witch comes again, takes another child and so on until all the children and the maid are gone. Then the mother goes to the witch and asks for her children, but the witch denies having them, until the mother sees some of the children. Then she asks the children one by one to come home but they say no, and she has to promise them money and other gifts. The game is finished when all the children are restored.
- Collector
- Eily Harmon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
- Informant
- Mrs Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Cill Damháin, Co. Cheatharlach
