School: Eidhneach
- Location:
- Eidhneach, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Sr Mac Gearachaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0611, Page 253
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Unearthly Animals
When people die they seem to the living people in different forms and some appear in the form of a dog ,cat,rat hound and pig.There was a man one time and where ever he went a rat used to follow him.When he used to go to bed the rat used to to sleep inside him.he went and told the priest and he told him to go out in the lake swimming and the rat would follow him and when he would go into the lake he would get drowned.When he went out and he got drowned and the man was alright(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
