School: An Caipín, Inis Céin
- Location:
- Cappeen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Cruadhlaoich
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“One night about twenty years ago I was travelling along the road from Átha Pháidín to Johnstown...”
One night about twenty years ago, I was travelling along the road from Átha Pháidín to Johnstown in a horse and cart with my wife and daughter beside me.
We had gone about a mile along this road, when the form of a man came out of a laneway and followed us for a mile-and-a half along the road until it came to a stream, and there it disappeared. The horse seemed to be as frightened as ourselves, for he was covered with foam when we reached home. I then remembered hearing the old people say that a Spirit could not follow a person across running water.
- Informant
- Michael Cross
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Cappeen West, Co. Cork