School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 276
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- Long ago whan a person would want a suit made the tailor would come to the house and make the suit there. This certain man wanted a suit made so he sent for the tailor to come.
He came to the house each day to make the suit. At this house there was a little baby. Now this baby was deformed because it had an old head on him. One day the baby's mother went out. The tailor was sitting on the table sewing and through the window before him he could see the liss. When the baby's mother went out the abay sat up in the pram and siad to the tailor.
'Play me a tune on the bag-pipes." The tailor was astonished but sudden he thought of a plan. "O look! the liss is on fire" said he. "Oh! and my poor parents will be burned to death" said the baby. He leaped out of the pram and ran out, They never saw him again. So they said that the fairies left this deformed creature instead of their own healthy, strong baby.
- Collector
- Eileen Begley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydowane West, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Begley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballydowane West, Co. Waterford
