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Receipt for rent payment is demanded and a poor man must go to hell for it. Brings it back. [NB The standard version tells how a tenant went to Hell to procure a receipt for the rent from his dead landlord. A very common Irish by-form of this tale describes how a priest brought a dead landlord, or someone similar, back from Hell to prove that he was suffering there.]

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