School: Tobar Pheadair (roll number 4789)
- Location:
- Peterswell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: P.S. Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)getting down off the house the bottle fell out of his pocket and got broken.
The following day the man went to "Biddy Early" again and he told and her what happened him the day before.
There was a back door in the house where this man lived and Biddy told him to shut the door and never to open it again because the slops they were throwing out the back door fell on the fairies.
He shut the back door for ever and from that on none of his cattle died. Two men were talking at Peterswell cross-roads between the two masses about three years ago.
A cousin of one of them died some time before that.
Suddenly a man dressed in brown having feet, face and hands as white as snow appeared to them.
He had a white basked. he was selling scapulars and he asked them to buy some for them but they said they had no change.
One of them told him to wait until he'd go to the shop to get change but the former said that he wouldn't be long that way. He he had said that he disappeared.
- Once upon a time a man was going to the fair at a late hour of the night. He travelled along the road where it was very dark and lonesome. Along(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Ballynabucky, Co. Galway
