School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 04_034
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“There was once a man who was very fond of fowling in the night.”
There was once a man who was very fond of fowling in the night. One night he tried to shoot a spirit that he used to meet constantly. She followed him and he asked a friend how would he kill her. He said get a coin with a cross on it. He got the coin and went the next night and fired at her. Next morning he went again and there was a heap of frogs on the ground. He head someone crying. He was going to fire when the spirit cried "Don't shoot me as you shot my mother last night
- Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway