School: Durrow (B.) (roll number 3517)
- Location:
- Durrow, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Sabhaois
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“One night a man was coming home from his work.”
I heard the following story from my father James King a labourer in Moyne, Durrow.
One night a man was coming home from his work. When he came as far as the Nore Bridge he saw a fox and it walked beside him. This man used always carry a stick with him. He raised his stick above his head and said "I will soon see what you are or if you are a living one or not". He drew his blow upon the fox but it went through him. The very next night after that as he was coming at the same time and at the same place, he saw a man covered with chains. The workman said "Good night sir what time is it".
The man with the chains said "go quick or you will be late"
That night when the man got home his wife was dead. It was said after, that it was the devil.
- Collector
- Michael King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Laois
- Informant
- James King
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Laois