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1. The Coffin that Rose from the Grave

   

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   Once there lived an old woman in Moyrus who was dying and she left her house to one of her daughters in America. She said that no one else was to live in the house but the daughter she left it to. When the old woman died another daughter of hers who was married came to live in the house. A few months later a priest who was just after being ordained came to live in Moyrus during his holidays. He went for a walk one day and as he was passing the graveyard he heard a noise and he though it was a wall that fell. He looked into the graveyard and what did he see but a coffin standing up. He went to the nearest house and told the people of it about the coffin and they buried it. It was not long until the report went around the island and the people who owned the corpse came to bury it but it was

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Robert Dundas

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mary Prendergast

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Occupation

   Domestic worker

   Address

   Roundstone, Co. Galway