School: Crosspatrick, Johnstown
- Location:
- Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 173
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“Long ago people used to go off in trances and other people used to think they were dead.”
Long ago people used to go off in trances and other people used to think they were dead. In the Co. Carlow there was a clergyman's wife and she went off in a trance. The people thought she was dead and they waked and buried her with all her gold rings and bangles on her. There was a poor ould stoochan living in the place on that night he dug up her grave and started to saw off her fingers, when he had them half off she woke up and began to thank him. The two of them went back to the house and the maid that opened the door dropped dead when she saw the woman and for a long time her husband would not believe her but at last he did and they gave the other man all he wanted.
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“There was a minister living in Johnstown and he was very poor.”
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