School: Leithead
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0464, Page 103
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- Once upon a time there lived a witch. She used wear a white cloak and she had teeth six inches long. Any one that past at night she would kill them. She would set upon a big rock looking if their was anyone coming. She had nine men killed in one year. One day a man told the priest about it. One night when he was passing, he saw her upon a rock and she was coming of to kill him. The priest turned the witch into a devil of the air. He then turned her into the sea with her legs upwards, before she would turn any boat.
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- Eileen Sullivan
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- Female
- Long long ago a woman lived in a cottage near a mountain. She was very poor and the chief supports she had was on cow. One day the cow got sick and it happened that a priest was passing by, the woman begged of the priest to cure the cow. The priest(continues on next page)
