Volume: CBÉ 0190

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 142

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 142

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  1. There was a wake held in a barn in Baldwinstown a long time ago. A crowd of fellows came in to it about eleven or twelve o clock and they took the corpse out of the bed and walked him up the floor. Some of the boys behind were trying to trip him and more of them were givin him boxes in the mouth.
    There was a woman walking in the same place wan time and she had a hump on her back. She couldn't be got to lie down in the bed on account of the hump so they tied her down to the floor with
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    1 May 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant