
A Story
- Language
- English
- Informant
- Martin Murray
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- farmer
The boy is turned into a roe by the cruel stepmother. Lives with his sister in the forest. The king marries the sister. Her stepmother usurps her place as wife. Disclosure, punishment, and reunion. [NB The standard type is hardly found at all in Irish oral tradition. Included here, however, is the by-form: man swallowed by a whale.]