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1. Spirits Story (continued)

   

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   person going to ramble so the foot steps followed him for about six or seven months after that night, so some one told the man to go to the priest and when going on his journey not to look behind so the man went to the priest and told his trouble of what happened six or seven months ago about him killing a young man. The priest said to him that it was the man who was following and that he ws right in not looking, so the priest made the man take his Rosary beads in his hands and follow him, and the priest took another Clergy man with him,so the three of them walked for about four miles of a lane praying and every now an then the priest asked the man did he still hear the foot steps and he said he did, and the other priest kept behind them the whole way. He saw the spirit trying to catch the man that killed him so at last they came to the end of the lane. The first priest said to the man stand out there until I mark a ring on the ground around him and then said the priest now young man step out of the ring and tell me if you hear any foot steps now "No said the man I don't," Well said the priest "I have put him to rest in that ring on that ground, so after some years the priests and the young man died.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Reammon

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Molly Mc Glew

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   79

   Address

   Leixlip, Co. Kildare