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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile

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Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 390

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  1. The Red Witch

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    One night a man was going for the priest for his mother who was dying. As she was almost at her last gasp he took a short-cut from Clontade to Kinsale where he was going for the priest. As he was passing Clontade Graveyard he saw a woman clothed in flames crossing the tombs, picking bone with her black teeth.
    When he reached the priest's shack in Cork Street he threw a handful of pebbles at the window. It was the signal that he was wanted for the last Sacrament.
    When the priest came
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Collector
    Mary O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Higher O'Connell Street, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs Stapleton
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female