School: Drong (roll number 15699)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 184
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- (continued from previous page)person, who sees, or feels them gives very exciting accounts of his or her experience.
They will tell you that, coming along the road, one dark night they heard a cry behind the ditch much like the cry of an infant.
Another will tell you that they could hear the tramp of feet walking along with them on the road, and could see no one.
A third will tell you, of seeking the form of a woman dressed in white, standing at some cross-roads, or well, perhaps they might say that the Ghost travelled along with them the length of a field.
What about the imaginary Ghost and thing they are the most common, from what I have heard of Ghost stories, I believe that a lot of the ghosts - if they were rightly examined - they would be nothing only something like themselves.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Cauley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drung, Co. Donegal
