School: Glenculloo, Killoscully (roll number 11083)
- Location:
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Ogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0538, Page 087
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- Once an angel appeared to a
certain man to whom he gave
three wishes. He told him not to
tell his secret to anybody. When
the man went home the first
thing he did was to tell his
mother who was preparing the
supper. The angel told the man to wish
for heaven.
This is a very poor supper
said his mother. I wish we had a
fried sausage and it came down the chimney
and began to fry on the pan.
A plague on your nose said the man.
I wish it stuck to your nose. It
stuck to her nose at the moment.
Now two of their wishes
were already wasted. The man said
they would wish for money and
he would get a golden case to
conceal the sausage off her nose. But
that did not satisfy the mother so
the last wish went to get the
sausage off her nose.
- Collector
- Kitty Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Margaret Clifford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glanculloo, Co. Tipperary
