GILLA OF THE ENCHANTMENTS.
Narrator, P. M'Grale, Dugort, Achill co. Mayo.
THERE was a king in Ireland and his wife, and they had but one daughter, whose name was Gilla of the Enchantments, and she had a magic coat that her mother left her when she died. And there was a man courting her whose name was George na Riell, and the two were courting.
When her mother died the king made a fair and beautiful greenawn for his three sons on an island in the midst of the sea, and there he put them to live; and he sent his daughter to them with food every evening.
It was not long after that till he married another wife, and by this wife he had three daughters. She was one day walking in the garden, and she got the corner of her apron under her foot and she fell.
“May neither God nor Mary be with you,” said the hen-wife.
