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   “There was man one time in this parish and he was very fond of playing cards and he used to go every night...”

   

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   There was a man one time in this parish and he was very fond of playing cards, and he used to go every night to a house where they used to play cards. He used to come home about 12 o'clock and he had to pass by the ruins of an old house which was supposed to be haunted.
   This man was passing by it about 12 o'clock one night and he saw a light in the house and he went over to a spy hole and he saw a man, and he had a pack of cards in his hands and so he said to himself that he would go in and have a game. He went in and the man that had the pack of cards asked him to play a game and he said he would. He sat down at the table.
   The man's luck turned and he never won a game. After a while a card fell from the table and the man stooped to pick it up and to his surprise he found that the man he was playing with had a cloven foot, so he fainted and when he woke in the morning he found that he was in the ruins of the old house.

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   History Edit

   Collector

   Walter Butler

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Imleach Beag Theas, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Willy Mac Donald

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   30

   Occupation

   Labourer

   Address

   Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford