Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0298
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- (continued from previous page)The nickname they had on him was Father Dod. When Sutton saw him coming into the yard the first day he says:
'Twas on the sixth of April
I was scraping up the dung
I see the antichrist coming
I knew I was undone
I knelt beside the dung heap, and offered up a prayer to God
To send him back to Margaret, he's the Rev. Adam Dod.
- There were to men standing at the Cross of Bolgan, near Glynn, wan night, and the heard the dead coach coming. They kept in in the dikes to let it pass.
'Twas a dead kind of noise.
It cut in at a corner there and went across the land towards the graveyard. - I often heard tell of Jack the Lantern and Will o'the Wisp.
I was put astray wan night meeself coming home. I was coming from Tomhaggard wan night, and I was coming through a field called the Black Park. There was a pathway through the fields there, and in olden times they used to take corpses across there. Twas a great short cut you know. 'Twas a fairy(continues on next page)
