The German Ghost
Shortly afterwards we had a visitation from another ghost. Like all good ghosts he was never seen except by night. Peculior characteristics of this ghost that he wore a bowler hat, sported fine brushing mustaschios of a bright colour & was ubiquitousness personified. He was seen everwhere but seemed to prefer rivers, bridges, wells, & hellocks. He also frequented the bog lands but was never known to carry a lantern. So he couldn't be "Jack o' the lantern' or 'Willy' the Wisp'. We finally discovered his diuenal headquarters - the pig-house of a half-built cottage Inetou's gate (page 5 supra) There we discovered that he boiled his kettle & pot over 4 candles & lived for the most part on tinned food. After this discovery the people concluded that he meant be 'a man for reading the stone' & and some of them even pronounced him an astronomer. When the policed finally got his tract he was arraigned at the local Petty Sessions & deported as a German spy, all his carefully prepared maps being confiscated.

after it all night. Instead of the cottage light 'twas Jackie the Lantern she was following. She was led astray. When day cleared in the morning she found herself at the other side of the mountain, miles away from her own house.

I often heard tell of Jack the Lantern and Will o'the Wisp.
I was put astray wan night meeself coming home. I was coming from Tomhaggard wan night, and I was coming through a field called the Black Park. There was a pathway through the fields there, and in olden times they used to take corpses across there. Twas a great short cut you know. 'Twas a fairy

and down, and I could hear terrible dragging along the gravel. I was going to turn back again for I got frightened, but all the same I came to, when I came up what was it but a man and he scraping the gravel. He had a lantern, and he was moving the light still as he went along.
There's a laneway leading down from here towards the sea. 'Tis called the Gotters. There was supposed to be ghosts seen there. I came up there wan night and I saw a face and two eyes of light. When I came up to it what was it but a turnip and a candle lighting in it.

Abstain from flesh meat on St Stephen's Day and you will not be sick for the coming year (Tullow)
"To it again", says the gráinneog is said as an incentive to perseverance. The old story of the gráinneog and the hare is well known.
"Philip-ing" is the Borlow word for "dark-fowling", i.e. catching wild birds (blackbirds, thrushes,etc) on the perch by night by means of lantern.
"Clock" is the Carlow word for a bettle. A bad dancer, one who pounds, who lifts them and let's them fall, is said to be " killing clocks" "Hay-foot, straw-foot" is also used for such a dancer /like our Doon expression: "Lift on súgán, grind upon gad" (=găd) "Splint-og ó slant ogó acht dtugaim a dee" snatch of an old song from my mother.
"Blow the rushes out and don't say one word of the Mass until you put Runner out of the chapel. He stole my little eels and my little eel-hooks. Look at him up there on the táilleog and a gob on him", as Crack Dinny said to the priest just before Mass started. "Don't make a 'blowing-horn' of them few words, said the same Crank Dinny on leaving the "Confession Box"