School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 115
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- Once there was a banshee over near where I live in Rathnamanagh, combing her hair and she was crying, and a fellow was passing by, and he snatched the comb out of hand, and ran home with it, and she followed him home and went in among the horses and made them go mad, and then she came to the window and she began to cry, and there was half a pane of glass broken and through the broken pane gave her the comb with the tongs, and she broke the tongs and she said if he had put out his arm she would have broken off(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina Bergin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Bergin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathnamanagh, Co. Laois
