School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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“Once upon a time there lived a step mother who had a step daughter and a daughter of her own.”
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loaves cried; take us out or we will burn.
The girl took out the loaves and went on until she came to a house, where an old woman lived. The girl was at first afraid to go in, but the old woman called for he and engaged her to shake out her head every day.
At last the girl said she would go home lest her step mother would be looking for her. The woman led her to a gateway and as she was going under it a shower of gold fell on her and gave her a dress of golden colour.
When she reached home and told her step sister what had happened, she too thought she would gather and get a golden dress. She went to the well, and to the house but said the work was too hard for her and when she was going under the gateway a shower of pitch fell over her dress. She ran home and told her step mother, who was very angry, and this made her hate her step daughter more.
- Collector
- Maurice O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John O' Toole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rhode, Co. Offaly