Scoil: Forgney, Ballymahon (uimhir rolla 860)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Bird-Lore

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   As the cuckoo flies about, a little wren follows her. But before the cuckoo leaves the country for the South, she turns upon her little attendant and eats him. This is firmly believed in this locality.

   The belief is held here that the reason people hunt and stone the wren on St Stephen's day is that this bird betrayed the Saint to his enemies.
   When St. Stephen was being stoned by the Jews, he hid under a heap of moss. But the wren, which was nearby, pulled the moss off the saint, thus revealing him to his enemies.

   When our Lord was dying on the Cross a little robin came, and in pity, tried to pull a thorn out of His Sacred Head. But the cruel thorns penetrated so far

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. seanchas ainmhithe (~1,185)
         1. seanchas na n-éan (~2,478)

   Innéacs seanscéalta

   AT0236: The Thrush Teaches the Doves (etc.) to Build Small Nests

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Irene Finnegan

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   12

   Seoladh

   Forgnaí, Co. an Longfoirt