School: Ros na Cathrach (roll number 12685)

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   Once a man lived with his mother in a small house with his mother. His name was Jack. One night there was a sudden storm and the roof of the house was blown off. In the morning Jack set out to discover who caused this. He came to a well where he saw a frog. He asked the frog who caused the damage; the frog told him that at the next well he'd meet a man who would tell him. At the next well a small man told him to take a further journey to find out his answer. At the next well he met a little man and woman who gave him a table-cloth with magic power, he had only to shake it and food and drink of all descriptions would be set on it. Back he returned with this, & on the way told his first acquaintance of the cloth. This little man on the quiet substituted another table-cloth for the magic one and when Jack got back to his mother he began boasting of his magic cloth. He shook it, expecting wonders to happen; but nothing happened. So Jack set out again and reached the place where he had got the cloth. There he got a black sheep which would, when told to shake herself, shower gold on the ground. This sheep he brought home and made his mother happy for ever after.

   

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   AT0564: The Magic Providing Purse and “Out, Boy, out of the Sack!”

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teddy Donovan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kealties, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Dan Donovan

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kealties, Co. Cork