School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)

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1. Ghost Stories

   

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   This is a story that happened about ten years ago. A man named John Mc Carthy of Greenville, Listowel was going home from town at 11 o'clock. He heard great trampling inside the ditch. He went to the gate and looked in and saw a great number of horses and Jockeys having races. Next day he looked at the field but there was no sign of a horses track there.
   This is a story of a man who lived near a Church yard in Afóna, Ballybunion. His name was Tom Danaher. He used to put his ass feeding in the Church yard. He used to bring home the ass every night. This night he forgot him until late, he and his son went for him. He found a piece of stick in the Church yard. He picked it up to drive home the ass. When they had the ass at home and were going to go to bed. A voice came to the window saying "Take back my shin-bone and put it where you got it".
   A man named Garret Sayers, Greenville, Listowel was going the road about 2 o'clock in the morning. He heard inside the ditch of the forge-field a great hurling match.

   

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2. Ghost Stories

   

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   There was a man and he was coming home from a wake on horse-back. A woman appeared to him. She jumped up on the horse's back and the horse felt with the weight of her sins. She said to the man she would leave him go if he killed his on own cock. Tha man said he would and the man went home and did not kill the cock.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   T. Moore

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Listowel, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   W. Moore

   Gender

   Unknown

   Address

   Listowel, Co. Kerry