School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)

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   “One night there was a servant-girl lighting a candle at the fire, and she couldn't light it with the coal of fire.”

   

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   One night there was a servant-girl lighting a candle at the fire, and she couldn't light it with the coal of fire. Says she "The Divil to it!". That minute she got a belt of something in the leg, and she was knocked out for about for four months. So one day a beggar woman came in. Says she "Look for a piece of a chayney (corruption of China, confer - children playing 'chayney' - dressers etc.) under the press and put it up to it. 'Tis another piece of a chayney that's inside in it and twill draw it out". The girl done this and drew it out and cured her leg.
   Told by Mrs Mary Doyle (40) Garryantanvalla, Listowel
   Written Gerald Doyle son 12 " ".

   

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   “There was a man and he used be stealing potatoes from his brother who was a farmer.”

   

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   There was a man and he used be staling potatoes from his brother who was a farmer. One night he got four others to go with him and they 'carried' four cliabhs. They took the potatoes and the four men took four cliabhs with one more with no cliabh to help them if they got tired. They came into the next field and the cliabhs were lifted off of their backs a big skit of laughing was heard. When they lifted the cliabhs and went into the next field then the cliabhs were lifted off of their backs again. Then says one of them: "If the divil carried them we'll put them up again." So they put them up and they were not lifted any more. Told by Mrs Margaret Lyons, Garryantanavalla Written by Gerald Doyle

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Gerald Doyle

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs. Margaret Doyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry