Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

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   “The night before Nick Culleton died,...”

   

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   The night before Nick Culleton died, the Dummy Kelly was in here and he starting making signs , pointed to the fire & threw his hands up and the devil such taken you never saw as he had.
   In the finish we got. apencil and a
   bit of paper for him to write it down
   So he wrote down on the paper, that
   he saw a big sheet of fire rising up
   from Culleton's house and going up in the heavens. That was the night before Nick died, about a week ago.
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2. The Evil Eye

   

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   The Evil Eye _ Did you ever hear tell
   of people over looking things, The Evil Eye ? Anything they'd look at would do no good. There was a man
   around here and he was down for it anyway. I heard one father saying that he was coming up the lane wan day with a mare and foal and he met this man. The man looked up at the mare and foal and praised them. Well, the foal dropped in the lane, and the mare took a shiver. The father and this man

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • John Carroll