School: Coillte Bó (roll number 15984)

Location:
Kiltybo, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Michael S. Ó Ceallaigh
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    up all the silver he could find. When he had all bagged up the took it out the window. When they got it out they let down the window and left the boy inside and he could not get out. The boy began to hover around until he got a dears skin in the cellar. He wrapped the skin about him with the horns cocked up. He began to knock at the windows and doors and said if he would not be let out he would knock the side wall of the house. One of the servants opened the door and he got away. He tracked the two men on the snow to the wood. When he put his head in the window the two men got frightened and ran off. The boy went
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0950: Rhampsinitus
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolaght, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Connell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolaght, Co. Mayo