School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Kilbolane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 185
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- A step-mother was very cruel to her step-daughter. She also had a daughter who did not work. The step-daughter had to sit at a well each day, spinning, until the blood came through her fingers. One day she went to wash the blood off spindle but the latter fell into the well. She went & told her step-mother what had happened. The step-mother told her to get the spindle but the step-child fell into the well.
Later, she found herself on a path which led to a small house at the door of which an old woman stood.
The woman called her & the girl remained for a long time. Then she told the old woman that she was home-sick. The lady led her home &, as they walked through a gate, a shower of gold fell on the girl who found that she had a golden dress. When the stepmother saw the dress she sent her own daughter to the well to spin.
The daughter pricked her finger, then went to the well & jumped in. She reached the path also & the woman who was at the door of the house.
When the girl was returning home a shower of pitch fell on her & she could not be freed from it.
- Collector
- Michael Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doony, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Fitzgibbon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Doony, Co. Cork
