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   ones, and he was cured shortly. This was a fairy woman as none in the hospital had proof of her entering it

   

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   Long ago a man used be out late by night, one night he was out late and when he was coming home he heard someone walking behind him and looking back he saw a black object like a dog. He began to run and the black thing began to run also. He kept running until at last the black thing leaped out in front of him on the road and kept crossing and re-crossing the road in front of the man and would not leave him out. At last they came to a part of the road which was flooded and the black thing stopped suddenly and the man stopped too, when the man tried to walk he could not he was stuck to the ground. At last he took off his hat and blessed himself and said some few prayers and that moment the black thing made a roar and ran into the "gully" in the ditch from

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Foley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Glanycummane Upper, Co. Cork