School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)
- Location:
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Congamhna
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“Once upon a time there were three brothers whose names were Dick, Harry and Tom.”
(continued from previous page)able to cross it. They saw a light the other side and they went as far as it. What was it but a house and they went in. The woman welcomed them and showed them their bed. After a while they went to sleep. Tom did not sleep at all that night, because he heard the woman uttering to herself. He told his other brothers to get up and they did. The old woman was a witch and she wanted to kill them.
The three got up and ran out the door. The old woman followed them with a knife. The three brothers went across the river on the tree to the other side. The witch tried to cross on the tree but the three brothers pulled it and she fell in and got drowned. The three of them went home to their father and mother and lived happily after.
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Hale
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Butler
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo