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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 124

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    Story of a Witch
    Long ago, a young girl went out one fine Autumn evening, to bind oats after the reapers while they were in at their dinner. The first ledge of oats she took up off the ground, there did have a run off from under it, in a few minutes, her sister who was only dead a short time, appeared before he, and kept with her all the time while she was binding, and no one saw her only her sister. She told her that she borrowed certain things from her neighbours, salt from this one, sugar from some other one and so on with a whole long list. She asked the sister would she pay back these things, and the sister said she would. In any case, she used to appear to the living sister every day and
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alphonsus Rushe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shankill, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Holmes
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    79
    Address
    Caldragh, Co. Roscommon