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

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
P. H. Kavanagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 259

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    met his brother Jim Flim and he told Jim Flim to go home and gave the bag of gold to his wife and to tell his wife that he was going to go on a bit further. So Jim Flim went home and kept the money himself. So one day Jim Con was coming over the top of a big mountain and he met a little man and he gave him a horn and whenever he would blow it there would come a hundred men out of it and he gave him a purse and whenever he would empty
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    Folktales index
    AT0564: The Magic Providing Purse and “Out, Boy, out of the Sack!”
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daniel Ant Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Dan Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    35
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Donegal