School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 236
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“Once upon a time there were too young doctors stealing dead bodies out of the grave yard to experiment on them.”
Once upon a time there were too young doctors stealing dead bodies out of the grave yard to experiment on them.
One night they came with their car to take a dead body with them. They knew that this man was a widower and that nobody would bother [?] watching the grave.
In those days the graves were watched for three nights for fear the corpse would be lifted.
The two doctors went into the grave-yard for the corpse. They took it out and left it in the car. Then they went in to close the grave. There was a man watching behind the bushes and he left the dead body in the bushes and jumped into the car himself.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Toland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annagh, Co. Donegal