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School: Inch, Borris

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Cluanach, Co. Cheatharlach
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Michael J. O'Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 673

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  1. Folk-Tales (continued)

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  2. The Substituted Bride

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    Long ago there was a woman and she had two daughters and a step daughter. The step daughted was a good looking girl and the her own daughters were very bad looking.
    There was a price and he wanted to marry he step daughter but the woman did not want him to marry her but her won daughter. They hid her and cut off her hair the way he would not know her. She was brought into him and when he saw her he knew and he took her away and married her and all the hair they cut off her head grew on the other girl's face and no one ever wanted her.
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