Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. Ghosts (continued)

   

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   on the road and he didn't know what to make of it. He took out the matches and he lit wan of them but the dickens o thing was in sight. He began to get very nervous then and I may as well tell you that when a nervous man would be in a fix like what he was in it would be no joke. He felt the cold perspiration coming out all through him, and he went on again. The step beside was still there and my brother was afraid that he would never get home. He was getting weaker and weaker and didn't he draw the Sign of the Cross on his forehead and it gave him new life and energy. He walked along and the step was still beside him but he wasn't as nervous of it now as he was when he heard it first. He came out of the dark place and into a brighter place and begor the sound of the

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   History Edit

   Date

   26 December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Fortún