School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)

Location:
Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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    to the table and knocked every thing down. The same thing happened for three times. Her husband was ever so angry with her. He would not walk home with her. She knew that it was Tim that was cause of it. She told the priest to go to him. The priest went to the field and found him under a furze and hawthorn bush. The priest said "Hallo, my boy. Come out here to me." Tim said "Come in here Fr. John".
    The priest made his way into Tim and started asking questions. Tim took out his tin flute and began playing, and the priest began dancing on the ditch.
    He asked to be let go and when he was down off the ditch he was all stabbed with thorns. Two policemen came another day and the same thing happened. They brought Tim to court and the judge said he would let him off free. The boy began playing and everybody started dancing. When Tim came home, his step-mother was up- stairs and he went up and began playing and she fell down and was killed. Tim and his father had the place to themselves then.
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    Folktales index
    AT0592: The Dance Among Thorns
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kenny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Patrick Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Cloondart, Co. Roscommon