School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)
- Location:
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: A. Hamill
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A few years ago, i had an unusual experience. It occurred on an night early in October. I was going a message for my mother. After getting the message, I returned home by the fields. Just as I was about to cross a stile, I saw a white thing on the hedge in front of me. It was the shape of man standing up against the hedge. I felt the sweat upon my forehead and then I ran home as fast as my legs would carry me. When I reached the house I fainted on the sofa. The next thing I remember was in bed and I saw the sun shinning through the window. My mother asked me what had happened to me, I asked her, when and she told me, last night then I remember what I had saw. She told me that it was a shirt drying on the hedge. I thought I was a big fool.
Written by:- John De Largy (jnr) Swords
Told by:- John De Largy (snr)
- Collector
- John de Largy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- John de Largy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Swords, Co. Dublin
