Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Cards (continued)

   

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   fainted off as dead as a cock in the minute and he never recovered until next morning. He never caught a card in his hand after that.

   

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2. Working by Power of the Devil

   

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   Old Ross was the devil of a place for the Black Art wan time. They were all protestants in it. After the fight in '98 there was only wan family of Catholics in Old Ross and their names was Cloneys.
   Well, there was a fellow from Old Ross by the name of Hayden, he was a carpenter and he used work here and there about the country. Well, he happened on this black book somewhere and he got the power from it. He could do anything. He often stood on the cross at Ballynaboola and he'd tell his boots to go home for a new pair of lacin's and the two boots would go and come back with a new pair of lacins in 'em.
   He'd go into a pub and he'd have very little money and he'd drink enough

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   Date

   April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Séamas de Faoite