
Scéal - Murchadh Bhriain Mhóir
- Language
- Irish
- Informant
- Pádhraic Seóighe
- Age
- 14
The man feigns death. The wife is immediately ready to take as husband the man who brings her the news. [Cf. Types 920, 931. Included here are versions of the story about the husband who made his wife sit on a cold stone, naked, to kill her.]
“About fifty years ago, there lived a woman by the names of Nora Walsh, Long Street, Cappamore, Co. Limerick.”
“There was once an old man and he wennt into a house one night and he asked for lodging”