Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. The Black Book

   

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   There was two fellows working in this house, somewhere up the country, and they happened on this black book. They had it by the fire and wan of them was reading it. He read for a bit and begob he heard chains coming rattling

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   Date

   April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Séamas de Faoite

2. Working by Power of the Devil (continued)

   

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   finish it. Another man came anyhow and he finished the car, and 'twas a grand job entirely.
   They tackled the horse to it, and it didn't go half a mile when the whole thing fell assunder like a heap of matchwood.
   This fellow, Hayden, was married too but the wife ran away from him, she couldn't live with him. In the middle of the night he'd give her a nudge and say: "Oh! Mary isnt that a grand vessel out there?" And there you'd see the grandest ship and the sails and all on her and the waves beating against her sides and she going to sail.

   

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