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1. Local Fairy Stories (continued)

   “There is the remains of an old house in Mr James Waldron's land, Devlis, Ballyhaunis, and in this house there lived a very old woman that used to change herself into a hare and suck the milk of the cows in the fields near her and the people thought it ver”

   

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   From that day to this she never troubled anyone or even came to to the (bus) house.

   

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2. Local Fairy Stories

   “One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past eleven, he was saw a light at Devlis.”

   

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   One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past evelven, he saw a light at Devlis When he reached the spot he found he was at the hill of Lisheen. He heard a noise inside the fence and as he looked he saw a woman coming towards him, dressed in nurses clothes. The man kept going and the nurse passed him by, and a motorcar was just coming. As it was drawing near the nurse went in through the bushes and vanished. The car belonged to Mr John Lyons

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Stephen Hunt

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lecarrow, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Cronin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lecarrow, Co. Mayo