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   looking girl, and very strong. One day she took sick and lived no time. They waked her and buried her. Now there was at the other end of the country from where this girl had lived, a young man who was very fond of gambling and who used not come home any night from the card-playing until twelve oclock or after it. On the night the girl was buried, this man was coming home late as usual, when at a turn of the road, he met four women carrying a coffin on sheets (Note The coffin with the remains, is always carried in Croom on the shoulders of four men. Two men go in under the feet of the corpse and having carried it until two others desire to go in the first two then go back to the "head" and so on. In Athea six men carry the coffin but leave off bearing it at whatever point, "head" or "feet" or "middle that they went under it, thus each fresh change means six new bearers. In Two-mile Borris Tipp, the coffin is borne on three sheets, each sheet slung under the coffin and the ends grasped in the hands of the bearers at either side). He took off his hat as the coffin was carried past and turned to walk after it. He only took a few steps when he offered to go under the coffin. The four women immediately let it fall and vanished from his sight. In the fall, the lid of the coffin got loosened and when the man approached it he found something stirring in it. He took of the lid and if he did a fine girl sat up. He took her out and put his

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Micheál Ó hArtagáin

   Gender

   Male

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   Artagáin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female