School: Mín na Glaise (Meenglass)
- Location:
- Meenglass, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 51
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- Once upon a time there was a certain part of the road where the people said a ghost was.
Some people living near the spot decided to frighten a neighbour. They were expecting the neighbour to pass the road that night.
One of the people went out with a sheet around him and sat on the ditch to frighten his neighbour. he waited for a long time and at last somebody come the road and stared across at the man in the sheet and said
"You came to scare
I came to fear
You sit there
And Ill sit here." That was the real ghost who came and frightened the bad neighbour.
- Collector
- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybofey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Kelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybofey, Co. Donegal
- Once upon a time a man was tired of his wife. The wife knew this and decided to play a(continues on next page)
