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   “A long while ago, there was a white thorn growing in Kellystown, Glentogher.”

   

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   and old and there used to grow haws on it as big as nuts. It occupied a large portion of the field where it grew, and one of the young men of a house nearby, unknown to his father, started to uproot the bush, but if [as] he did a great volume of smoke issued from it, which went straight up to the clouds, and at the same time the wild lamentation of the fairies was heard for miles around. It struck terror into the hearts of the natives, and the bush remains as it was from that day to this.

   

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   “There was a curious a man living in Gleneely near Culdaff who came to a priests house looking for help.”

   

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   There was a circus man living in Gleneely near Culdaff who came to a priests house looking for help. The priest asked him who he was and having been told, he asked him what he could do. Just then a woman came for the priest to hear her confession and she saw the circus man standing on his head. She went on in thinking that this was the penance which the priest gave him and when the

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Maggie Mc Dermott

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   79

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mrs W Diver

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Tirnaleague, Co. Donegal