School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs Brady
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- (continued from previous page)The king could get nothing out of her at first, but she was wailing and crying like a banshee, but after a few seconds she said, 'Come in now until you see what your wife has done, your child is dead she killed it and she is lying asleep with the poor child's blood fresh on her hands. It's many a time I warned you that she was no natural woman. The king rushed in, and there he saw his wife asleep with her hands red with blood and splashes of it all over the cradle but no trace of the child. The old queen yelled and screamed ' burn her, burn her she's nothing but a witch that eat's children.
The king was wild with terror and at last he got shaking her awake, but when he asked her about the child, and pointed to the blood she never spoke. Oh,(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Plunket
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Peadar Ó Maolagain
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Oibrí
