School: Cúige na Mainseár

Location:
Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 142

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 142

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: Cúige na Mainseár
  2. XML Page 142
  3. XML (no title)

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. (no title)

    Once upon a time there was a man and he was two foot and a half high.

    Once upon a time there was a man and he was two foot, and a half high. He was (a) very poor, and he went aaway to make a living. He came across a dump, and there was seven hundred flies on it and he said to himself. "If I kill all these I will go (home) on but if I don't kill them I will return.
    He killed the flies so he went on till he came to a castle, and he knocked at the door, and the butler came out, and he said What do you want?"
    The little man said - "Can I see the King. The butler said he could, and he came to the door
    Then the King asked him
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Folktales index
    AT1062: Throwing the Stone
    AT1088: Eating Contest
    AT1121: Ogre's Wife Burned in his Own Oven
    AT1640: The Brave Tailor
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mairead Hennigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballina, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Hennigan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballina, Co. Mayo