School: Gaddyduff (B.) (roll number 16642)

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
P. H. Kavanagh
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    he would ever marry a girl with these three colours. Hair as black as the raven, skin as white as snow, and cheeks as red as blood. Any stranger that would come to his father's house he was always asking if he knew where such a girl lived. One day there was a stranger in it and he told him that there lived a girl of these three colours in the Eastern world but her father was a very wicked man and he killed all that came to the house for her. But still the boy
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    Folktales index
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    AT0513: The Extraordinary Companions
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joey Mc Cauley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Rose D. Duffy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    19