Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

Date
1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0187

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    own door. When I got to this gate there was the same woman standing right inside it and I couldn't open it either. Begor I was in a proper fix then altogether and begor what did I do but go back to the wake again, and I told a few of the lads who were there what I had seen and begor they began to laugh at me. Well I told them what I seen and there was wan of them there who spoke for me and says he. "Well I would believe Fortune for he is a man who never saw anything in his life and never believed in anything, so when he said that he saw this there certainly must be something in it.
    So begor that finished the whole thing and what did I say but that we would go down to the place where I saw her, and off we started and we never stopped until we came to the place where I had seen her. I went up
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    26 December 1937
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant