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School: Kiffa

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Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
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Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 067

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    her that she would marry him in the morning she said that she would marry him because it would be easier than to die. So the dwarf started spinning and he sang as he was spinning "Do not tremble but be bold see the straw change into gold". When morning came she did not like to go with him, so she shouted and roared until at last her brother heard her and came on horseback and brought her home with them, and the gold changed back into straw when she did not go with the dwarf so the King had no gold, the girl got no King, and it was a lesson to her foolish father to not tell any boasting lies again.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Heaney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumegil, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Boylan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumegil, Co. Cavan