Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0176
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“There was a family named Molloy in this part of the County and the banshee follows....”
(continued from previous page)doing he keening. In course of time (?) of the girls died, and the banshee used be heard when every one of them was dying. The people of the house weren't a bit afraid of her in the wind up, and they used like ta be listening ta her keening, and they wouldn't allow anybody to molest her in any way.
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“I heard a story wan time of a girl...”
I heard a story wan time of a girl that was seen goin’ to school, and she dying in the bed at the same time. People met her with her bag on her back in the broad daylight and she by herself and she spoke to everyone she met. It wasn’t wan person alone she saw but five or six. That happened as same as we are sittin around that fire, an’ that’s sure enough.