School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- Weasels are very dangerous. If you done anything to them they would suck your Blood. If you see a weasel running on the road before you, some people say it is for good luck. They are long thin creations with a brown fur. They live on blood.
Once there was a man cutting meadow he had a can of milk for drinking. There was a nest of weasels in the meadow and the mother weasel was not in the nest, she was away searching for food for the young ones.
The man was cutting the meadow all the time, he came to the nest, he cut the feet off the little weasels. When the mother weasel came(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Ita Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cartoon, Co. Mayo
