Volume: CBÉ 0221

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    I was coming home another night from my aunt's place...

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    as the cross she went in to the field there and over in the direction of the rath. There was two fellows standing on the cross and the woman passed by them and they never spoke to her. I wondered at this for it was a fine moonlight night. What wondered me mostly was they seemed as if they didn't see her at all. I asked wan of them did he see a big woman about ten feet high and he told me that it it was raving. I was told that no woman of that height passed there my sister too told me not to be a fool and not to be goin' out of my mind, but I'm certain now that I seen her no matter what people say.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Wan night when my mother, God rest her soul was coming home from town...

    Wan night when my mother, God rest her soul was coming home from town she got a fright that she didn't forget until the day she died
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    16 July 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant