School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- 1. Fox. He lives on the the mountain and comes down at night to steal fowl. In the fox's tongue there is supposed to be a cure for drawing out a thorn or any other object that got into the flesh.
2. Rabbit and hare, live in holes in the ground and are killed and sold by hunters.
3. Weasel. People are afraid to rob a weasel's nest, because his spit is supposed to be poison. One day a man from Bohomore robbed a weasel's nest when he went home he saw a crowd of weasel's outside the window ready to suck his blood.
It is said that if any one can get a purse made of a weasel's skin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Mc Nicholas
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowntleva, Co. Mayo
