Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Petticoat Loose

   

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   Petticoat Loose was a bad spirrit. She was seen in Clongeen. She followed a boy once across a ploughed field. When she came as far as the plough she could get no farther. She couldn't pass anything with a cross on it.
   She wasn't allowed into heaven because she did some awful things. She came to a priest one day in the shape of a mad bull, and he told her to get away and come

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   • Bridget Francis

2. Signs of the Weather (continued)

   

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   The Banshe follows the Radford and the Sparrow family. She is a big woman with long gray hair and she combing it, and she comes outside the window when people are waking and cries "Mona Astoir Mona Astore,"

   

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