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Richard Marsh, Storyteller
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Fionn mac Cumhaill
Irish Folk and Local Tales
Killeen Cormac
Spain, Basque Country, Galicia
San Adrián
Ghost / Devil / Magic / Otherworld
Room for one more
Nasruddin Hodja and Afantí
Sound of coins – aroma of food
Miscellaneous
Second language
Irish Myths and Legends
The Tuatha Dé Danaan
Wicklow Stories
Legends of Saints
Legends of Kings
Táin Bó Cuailnge - The Cattle Raid of Cooley - the great Irish epic
and its hero, Cúchulainn
Miscellaneous Legends
Dublin Castle Robbers
Mac Corish
The Gadaí Dubh - The Black Thief
“Ghost” Car
Silly Women
Jonathan Swift and the Goose
Screwdriver/wedding
Einstein’s Driver
Lazy wife (spin, weave, sew)
Mirror
Trick - two of them
Gas pipeline
Rathnew woman moves furniture
Black Pig’s Dyke
Rathlin Fairy Tree
Malachy Horan (Headless Ghost, Battle in Clouds in Tallaght and at Old Head)
Clonmacnoise Unfinished Round Tower
Leprechaun
Devil and the Dance Hall - Tooreen, 3 October 1954
The Bee the Harp the Mouse and the Bumclock
Padraic Fiacc
Standing Stones of Achill Island
Pipe in Mouth
Two American women/priest/Blarney Stone
Gold Ring
Stephen Behan (Drew)
Judge Over Wall
O’Doherty the Spy
Mary Whelan
Hughie McCusker (Blondy/pigeon/steak, Bosco roses, Putta, Big house gate)
Bricklayer and Engineer 1mm spot on
Mañana shoe repair
Glenmalure Man
Over the Wall to the Trinity Ball
Psychic bicycle
Avoca (Tigroney ghost, “Me&thee”, Pyne/touched/road/rain, snow)
Moving Statues: butcher/Thomas/shoved/Paisley
Man With No Story
Red Hand of Ulster
Baby Song Thrushes
Kishog’s Curse
Biddy’s Curse
Priest/bishop/teapot
Priest pregnant
Flour from America
Irish mottos – Eileen/Siobhán
Al - Tara
Dark Patrick (Cromachy Crows/ Oxford-Mungret)
Death by Old Age
Marisco
Púca
Old Brindled Cow
Inishmaan farmer
John Philpot Curran (£100, ghost, idle women, Judge “Bully” Egan)
Hitching/hospitality
Retina
Healer
Piper’s Shoes
Gobán Saor & King of Spain
I Can Sleep When the Wind Blows
Pickpockets
Catholic or Protestant Jew
Deathbed Conversion
Barney & Norah: old, wish
San Andrés de Teixido
San Antonio
Santiago
Irishman & Hugo
Nymphs of River Sil
Hercules & Gerión
Tower of Breogán
Between Pinto & Valdemoro
Jaun Zuria, the First Lord of Bizkaia
Death of Lekobide
Diego López and the Goat-foot Lady
March and February
Sanmartintxiki
Leokadi
Pyrenees Snow
Casa del Duende
Calle de la Cabeza
Juan de Atarrabio, the Man Without a Shadow
The Doctor and Death
Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Olentzaro
Bridge of San Martín
Juan Soldado
Only knights can enter Heaven – León
Girl Who Wanted Three Husbands
Pascual Vivas (955)
El Cid: Valencia escudo, beard
Calle de los Alfileritos
The Burnt Hand
Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz
Postman from Purgatory – Erro
Grey Grass
Vow of Muño Sancho
Alonso Pérez de Guzmán the Good (1256-1309)
The Valour of Garcí Pérez de Vargas, 1247
María Pérez, La Varona, c. 1130
Fire of Mafasca
Lizard of La Malena
Lovers of Teruel
Aqueduct of Segovia
Bridge at Oiartzun
Saint John’s Eve Bonfires
Ramiro and Aldonza
Big toe/Golden arm
Barewalking
Long bony fingers
Ghost of father rescue
Crane (Tsuru)
Hoichi
Photo of Drowned People
Star Lovers (Weaver Maid & Herd Boy/magpies)
White Butterfly (Takahama & Akiko)
Red dress
Hitch-hiker
Achen Sand Hill
La Llorona
Dave Fisher: Red-headed woman/Priest/Water rat/Dustpan
Bunratty Ghosts
Hempenstall
Mary Culhaine
Red Velvet Band (neck)
Loftus Hall
Hodja lost donkey – not on it
Man lost donkey – non-smoker-coffee-alcohol drinker in cafe donkey
Sun or moon more important
Tamerlane – belt 20 gold marks
3 plums for judge
“Do you know what I’m going to tell you?”
“How did you know it was me?”
Shoes pocket tree - road go from there
Turkish bath – tip
“Half your life has been wasted”
Cat – meat
“If Allah is willing.”
“Send me a donkey.”
“Stupid oaf” sign
Son riding donkey
“Come down and I’ll tell you”
Pot had baby, died
Baby in 7 days, needs paper, pen, books
“Everyone who sees the light”
Hot soup
Balance of the world – people go in different directions
“Your cow killed my cow”
“You know how to swim, don’t you?”
Goose with one leg
“Where is your nose?” Back of head: “If you can’t know the opposite, can’t know thing itself.”
Looks for lost keys under streetlight
Tax collector
Poured coffee on new clothes after being ignored wearing old clothes
Shirt welcome
Afantí –shade / coin in donkey’s ass
Unlucky man
Snowdrop
Knickers – 5-7 years
Churn butter
Corn ears
$100 Corvette
Corvette & motorcycle
Where I live
83 milk, 94 whiskey
70 marries 25
Wise Men of Chelm
That’s Once
Furburger
Leek
Fridge
Key West: Dorothy/mayor/wreckers/sheriff
Freedom Bird
Caged bird
Wooden leg pig
Starfish
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
Giving Blood
Centipede
Be Nice
Curse on Misdirection
Genie bridge
Rattlesnake
Saying No
Alphabet prayer
Yank penis
Tax Collector
Solomon ring – This too will pass
816 2784
Dog/heaven - Mahabharata
Treasure dream – Baghdad-Cairo
Abidoo (Philippines)
Talkative tortoise (India)
Titanic Thompson (Arkansas)
Trumpeter of Krakow
Farting stone (AT 593) (Swedish Pruttstenen; Finnish Pierukivi)
Dumb kid – 2 quarters, one dollar
Abdul, grandson of Karim the hat-maker, and monkeys
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