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School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)

Location:
Toorard, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 276

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    A certain girl was one day at a race meeting. There was a fortune-teller there and the girl gave him a shilling to tell her her fortune. The fortune teller gate the girl a photograph of a man whiom he said would be her future husband. She put it into her pocket. When she fell asleep that night she was awakened again by a queer noise. Then she heard a voice saying 'throw away the devil' The girl got up and burned the photograph. Then she heard the voice again saying 'He is better there than where he was' She went to bed then and she heard nothing else.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Andrew Ward
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Toorard, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Denis O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockskehy, Co. Cork