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   “One time there was a man and a lovely girl used to appear to him every evening.”

   

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   One time there was a man and a lovely girl used to appear to him every evening. After a few evenings he said he would speak to her. So the next evening she appeared to him and he said to her "In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, what do you want" and she told him to pay fourpence to someone which she owed. So he told the person and he paid it and never saw her again.

   

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   “One time Mrs Reilly's grandfather Pat Murphy...”

   

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   One time Mrs Reilly's Grandfather Pat Murphy Killkasney went out in the night to catch a horse to ride him to Hacketstown for the Priest for a Protestant brother-in-law of his who was dying + wanted to turn Catholic. When he went out he could not catch teh horse he was galloping everywhere. So the man went in + got holy water then he went out again and got the horse in another field. The first horse was the devil. So he set out for Hacketstown, when he arrived at the Priests house he was up, and he said "how did you get here. The man told him that there were barrells rolling along the road before him. The priest said that he knew there was

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Tyrrell

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ráth Sheáin Mhóir Thoir, Co. Chill Mhantáin