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    17th June 1938

    people say that if you eat blackberries after November night the puca will carry you away. He is a fierce looking spirit with big horns. After November night the puca's spit is supposed to be on the Blackberries. The puca is supposed to take the child who eats the blackberries away on his back and carries him all over the country over bushes, houses, walls, trees, rivers and over mountains and then he brings the child back to it's bed again before morning. When the child wakes up in morning he is frightened.

    Maureen Hayes
    St Magdalen's Lodge#
    Maudlintown
    Wexford
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Hayes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Maudlintown, Co. Wexford