School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)
- Location:
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Raighne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 165
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“In olden days when the people would die and be buried the doctors would come and dig up their bodies...”
In olden days when the people would die and be buried the doctors would come and dig up their bodies for experimenting, so the people had to watch the graves. One night two men were watching a grave of a man just buried when two doctors came up and dug up the mans body. After putting him in a bag they went to the gates of the graveyard to see if any one was watching. In the meantime one of the men took the dead man out and got in himself the two doctors came back and took the bag away. They came to a crossroads and they did not know the way to go, one asked the other which way to go and the man in the bag shouted "down rotten road you thief." The two men got frightened out of the wits and dropped the bag and ran away.
- Collector
- Paddy Bruen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Redmond Bruen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosses Point, Co. Sligo