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

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
P. H. Kavanagh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 237

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 237

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gaddyduff (B.)
  2. XML Page 237
  3. XML “The Three Colours”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    they met another man. He had one of his legs tied up. The King's son asked the little red man what kind of a man was this. He said that was the man with the Swift Leg and if he let the other out he would run out of sight and he told him to bring him with him too. So the King's son brought him with him. They did not walk far til they met another man crushing down stones with his feet. The King's son asked the red man what kind of a man was this. So he told him that was the man with the Iron Feet.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Folktales index
    AT0505: Dead Man as Helper
    AT0513: The Extraordinary Companions
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joey Mc Cauley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Rose D. Duffy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    19