School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)and wondered what caused the animal to tremble. He alighted from his horse immediately and led him into a farmyard nearby and said he would walk the remainder of the journey. Just when he came to where the horse had stopped he saw a coffin in the middle of the road and it wide open. He went near it and looked into it but it was empty. He then knew what the horse had seen and walked to the end of his journey.
- There once lived a man and his wife who had one child whom they loved very much. In the meantime the child's parents died so he was left an orphan. After the death of his parents his aunt came to take care of him. At first she showed great kindness towards the child but as time went on she became cruel and wished to rid herself of the care of him and plotted and planned to do so. One day as she and the child were alone in the house she murdered the child and a stain of blood remained on her hands so she washed them in a basin. Not long after, the aunt died and it was said that her ghost was seen afterwards washing her hands in the same basin.
