School: An Clochán (B)
- Location:
- Clifden, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br. Angelo Mac Shámhais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 060
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- (continued from previous page)After six years nine months had passed away Willie met a man. The man said are you going to come with the man you promised six years nine months ago.
During the last three months Willie died. He went to Saint Michael in heaven and Saint Michael said to him "The man you were dealing with all your life was the devil from hell.
I will give you leave to go on the earth again and I will give you a lantern. Every day for three hundred years you will pick a wisp of straw and keep it for three hundred years. That's how Willie the Wisp got his name. The say he is still living on the earth.
- Collector
- Ignatius Ludden
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Folan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
