School: Arklow (B.)

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   “The banshee or bow as she is known in parts, is commonly believed in, in most of Ireland.”

   

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   tossing and turning and was haun the time by the dace of the banshee. things occured every night in succe until he could bear it no longer. He a priest and this priest told him th bow would return and that he was restore the comb. A few nights later, t heard something at his window and he looked out he saw the banshee. He got his tongs and stuck the in it. He pushed it out through the a and when he drew his hand in agai of the tongs was gone. [Transcriber's note: the right margin of the page is cut off.]

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   “One time a man died near Crookstown. When he was alive he was very fond of smoking a pipe. The night he died the Banshee was heard crying in the fields.”

   

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   One time a man died near Crookstown. When he was alive he was very fond of smoking a pipe. The night he died the Banshee was heard crying in the fields. When the people went out to look the [?] ( last line missing)

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