School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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   “Once there lived a cruel witch who used t eat children.”

   

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   Once there lived a cruel witch who used to eat children. One night a father an d mother were out leaving the boy and girl to mind the house. It was getting late and when the father and mother did not return, the children set out to meet them. They brought a cake of bread and crumbled it on the ground so they'd know their way home. They would see the crumbs on the road but - the birds eat them.
   They saw a light and they thought it was the father and mother coming. But it was the witch's house. She came out and said "Fee, Faw, Fum, I smell the blood of an Irishman
   I'll have his bones for stepping stones."
   She put the boy down in a room and she said "You'll make a feed for me."

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   History Edit

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sean Reynolds

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lisduff, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Jim Cummins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Correen, Co. Leitrim