School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)

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1. Story of a Magic Hare

   

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   There were men hunting in Lios an uisge Clouneagh. They met a little boy and asked him if there were hares in the district. They told him that they would give him half a crown if he told them where there was a hare. The boy asked his mother if there were hares in the district. His mother told him to tell them that there was a hare in the next field but if they had a black hound not to tell them about the hare. The boy was so excited about the half crown that he did not look at the hounds but there was a black one amongst them. They went to the field and found the hare. The hare went to an old ruin which was in the neighbourhood. A the hare was going in the window of the ruin the black hound caught him but did not hold him. When the hunters came they found an old witch and she was bleeding.

   There was a woman who lived in a house and every night she was changed into a hare by rubbing a bone to herself. The servant boy of the house watched one night where she

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Irwin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile na Fraince, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Michael Hartnett

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   32

   Address

   An Baile Nua, Co. Luimnigh