School: Templetown
- Location:
- Templetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Charles D. Hearne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 137
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- Once upon a time when the banshee was supposed to be about there were two men passing by one night, and they took her comb. They ran home as quickly as they could and the banshee after them.
She stayed outside all night- crying for her comb.
So in the morning they went to the priest and asked him what would they do.
He told them to let down the window a little bit and to hand out the comb with a tongs.
So they did, and she took the top off the tongs.
They had seven fine fat pigs for the fair, so when they got up in the morning the seven fine pigs were dead.
So the next morning all the feathers were off the hens, so they had to make jackets for the hens. So that is the end of that story.
- Informant
- Patrick Colclough
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Templetown, Co. Wexford
