School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15457)
- Location:
- Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSiúr M. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0637, Page 131
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“There were two men who were brothers living in the country one time. They were very poor.”
There were two men who were brothers living in the country one time. They were very poor. One of them died and as they were very honest Tom thought his dead brother had no debts to pay. As his grave was near the house he used go every night to weep and pray over it, but one night his dead brother came to him and told him that he owed money to a black-smith in Dungarvan.
Tom went to the town. The black-smith said he owed him nothing. When he came home he went to the priest and told him what had happened. He told him to get holy water, a knife, and a March cock. If it was not his brother he would not come in his own form. First he told him to sprinkle the holy water and if it would not go away, to hit it with the knife and then if did not go away, to throw the cock at it.
He got those things and went to the grave and there was a black dog before him. He did as the priest told him. When the cock touched him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- E. Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr P Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Salterbridge, Co. Waterford