Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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   “There was an ould couple living in Downing long ago.”

   

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   and balls of fire flew out of him.
   The poor woman went off in a weakness and remained so 'til her husband came in. He didn't know how long she was that way, or what had happened her. But to make a long story short the woman only lived three weeks after.

   

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2. Bean Sí

   

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   About three or four months ago the evening Billy Lynch was dying in Kilally, I head a terrible cry. I thought it was his mother crying so I did not take much notice of it. But begor I notice that it came nearer and nearer til I thought it passed our gate; and there is a small beech tree growing near it, and it was shook asunder. So on the cry went in the direction of Leitrim graveyard, his burying place. That very night I went down to the village and I met his Aunt - Billy was dead this time. So I told her that Billy was dead. "Oh my God," says she, "I head the bean sidhe

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Nora Doran