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1. Folklore from Adamstown, Co. Wexford (continued)

   

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   from the table, and while you'd be looking around you the strange man had vanished.
   Poor Dick got a terrible fright, and he never was the same again.
   After a short while he took to the bed and he died very soon after. Of course 'twas the devil that was in it that night playing the cards.
   I always heard it said that it wasn't right to stay up late playing cards.

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Mary Delaney