School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)

Location:: Ballina, Co. Mayo
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eggs but in coming down he missed the last step. He brought the eggs safe and gave them to the Green Man of Knowledge. The girl came to him again and told him that there were three sisters of them in it and that her father was going to get a hand of each one of them out in three separate holes so that the boy couldn’t discern which of them the hand belonged to. Then she showed him her hand and there was a finger missing and he knew at once that he was the cause of it by missing one of the rungs in the ladder when he was coming down from the bird’s nest. Then she said to him. “This is the hand I will put out” showing him the hand with the missing finger. “Then you’ll know which of us to choose.” Next day the hands were put out for him to choose from. The boy choosed the hand of the missing finger. Her father was standing by and when he seen (saw) the one he choosed he got into an awful rage. Then he guessed who was aiding him as this girl had more power and enchanments than any of her two sisters and he ordered his head to be cut off in the morning. The boy was in a terrible
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Folktales index

AT0313: The Girl as Helper
Language

English

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

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