Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0103
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“Well talking about fairies how is it that there are no such things as fairies...”
(continued from previous page)end didn't St Michael win and if he did didn't God Almighty fire Lucifer down to hell along with the rest of his companions
The followers of Lucifer were so thick that they were falling as quickly and as thickly as snowflakes in a heavy storm, and they were falling for seven years. In the end St. Michael turns to almighty God and says "Stop you'll lay heaven waste" and with that all the bad angels stopped in the very position where they were. Some of them has only wan leg in hell, and so from heaven to hell the air is thick with 'em and they are the cause of all the bad weather. The fella with wan leg in hell you know, can communicate with the fella that has all but wan leg in heaven, and they can see when farmers are wanting rain and when they're not and of course there so big a divils tha when the farmers are wanting fine weather they pull a string and let down plenty of rain oh that's the would 'em. Well to come(continues on next page)