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1. The Ghostly Funeral

   

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   One dark Winter's night, two men were coming home from a dance. It was nearing midnight. As they were passing by this certain part of the road which was supposed to be haunted, when all at once what should they see approaching them but a ghostly funeral. One man said to the other that the best thing they could do was to go inside the fence until it had passed. They did so, but one of the men was very impatient and wanted to look over the fence at the funeral, but the other man tried to persuade him not to. At last he lost all patience and looked out just at the funeral was passing. As he did so, what should be outside the fence but a ghost who put his finger into the other man's eye and blinded him, and from that night onwards he had not the sight of his eye.

   

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2. The Man that Was Drowned in Bunmahon

   

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   Long ago there was a man in Bonmahon who was not very steady. One Sunday he was sitting by the sea-side. He ran out into the sea, and dived into the water, intending to drown himself, but he did not succeed. He came in and filled his pockets with sand, and went out again, but the water only washed the sand, and he came in a second time. Next time he filled his pockets with stones, and when he went out, he dived into the water, and he did not come up again. His body was that night by two Coast gards.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daniel Gambon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lisnageragh, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   William Gambon

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Lisnageragh, Co. Waterford