Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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    There were two fellows wan time and they were great chums entirely.

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    and he made the circle, he got wollen thread and soaked it in the Holy water, and put a few pegs in the ground all round and put the thread around them; and stood inside in the middle.
    At the very minute they fixed on the
    Protestant chap came. He came to the thread and no further.
    "Well", says the Catholic chap, "where are you?"
    "I'm in Hell", says the Protestant, "and 'tis a good job for you that you went to the priest and that you did what he told you, for I'd kill you this very instant.
    See he couldn't get inside the ring. So he disappeared and he saw no more of him.
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    I heard tell of two other chaps that made a bargain same as that and wan of them died, and the other fellow went to the place on the night they fixed on, but he saw no wan. I suppose he was at rest in heaven, and didn't bother coming back.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    January 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant