School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)“When my father comes in he will put you to a lot of question to find out how you cleaned the stable, but no matter how he questions or threatens you don’t tell him that I was here or it will cost me my life.” She went out and shortly after her father the Green Man of Knowledge came into the stable. He was surprised to see how clean it was. After he told him that was his task done for that day but that he would have another one to(o) for him the next day.
That night when he was going to bed the same girl came to him again and told him not to lie in the bed and also told him that her father was going to get him to climb the highest tree in the garden, to take three eggs out of a bird’s nest. And she told him that she would make a ladder out of her ten fingers. “And if you miss one step when you are coming down with the eggs I will lose one of my fingers.”
Next day he was showed (shown) the tree he had to climb. She placed her ten fingers as ten rungs in the ladder. She then told him not to attempt to miss one or she would lose one of her fingers. So he started to climb the ladder.
So he reached the nest alright and got the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Val Muldowney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Broderick
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Shoemaker's wife
- Address
- Ballina, Co. Mayo