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School: Drumdigus (B.), Cill Mhuire (roll number 13478)

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Drumdigus, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Éamonn Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0600, Page 173

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    again. When the waggoner came next morning he was great surprised to see the youth. He brought him to an inn, and here the youth heard of a king who would give his daughter to the man who would spend three nights in an emty palace and thereby get the gold that was hidden in it. Many men had been found dead in the morning. The youth went to the king and vollunteered to go if the king would teach him how to shiver. The king said he would learn to shiver there quick enough. Then that king said that the youth would get any three things he would ask before he went in. The youth asked for a knife a vice, a cutting board. The youth went in the first night and made down a big five. In the middle of the night four cats came in. There was fire coming out of their eyes. The youth caught the cats and screwed their legs in the vice and threw them into water that was near and that he had not noticed before. Then hundreds of cats and dogs with fiery eyes began to come into the house and they scattered
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0326: The Youth Who Wanted to Learn What Fear Is
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Mescall
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cross More, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Pat O' Brien
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Corraige, Co. Clare