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1. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality (continued)

   

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   There is also a reference in it to work on a Sat. night. It was always regarded as very unlucky to work after 12 o'clock on a Sat. night. People who did, often saw queer things.

   

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2. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality

   

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   Tom Curran's father was on his ceilide one night in Alex MCabes of Mount Ida. It was late when he was coming home, and as he was going down a lane he met a funeral. When the funeral came as far as him, the people left it down and opened the lid of the coffin. He looked into the coffin as he was passing by and he saw his mother in it. She was dead several years. When he came home he told them all about what he met, and they said it must be the fairies. The next night he met the same crowd again, and they asked him to help them to bring the corpse. So the furnace turned into [?] Clancy's rock and the grave was made an all there. They put down the coffin and then they began to sing and cry over it, and they said that it wouldn't be long till they'd have another of his people. When he came home that night he got his father dead in his bed. The day his father was buried he was coming home fairly late as he had to treat the

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Jimmy M. Cabe

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ráth Chuilinn, Co. Liatroma