School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)

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Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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    One night a man was going home after playing cards.

    One night a man was going home after playing cards. He met a man with a table on the road and the man asked him to play so they began and when they finished the man with the table took a hundred pounds from his pocket and said "all this I will give to you, if you will give me yourself when you die which will be 14 years from now." They agreed and the man went home. Fourteen years passed and just two days before his doomed day he went to the priest for protection. He offered the priest the hundred pounds but the priest told him to burn it that it was bad. The day came and the priests were reading prayers over the man. The devil came and chains around his neck and when he found out he was beaten he went away in a rage.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Folktales index
    AT0810: The Snares of the Evil One
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Griffin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Daniel Scannell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    79