Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

Date
1937–1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0201

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0201

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  1. Once upon a time there lived a man in the parish of Kilmacshalgan Dromore West. He got married & he & his wife lived very happily- never having "a scrap" for twenty-two years. During this time the devil had tried his very best to put between them but failed. Now, the Boyó (devil) did not like to be bested so he commissioned an old witch to put between them and if she succeeded he promised to give her as reward a pair of shoes which possesses some extraordinary power.
    The old witch set out one day to their house. The man was out working in the fields & the woman was in the house. The witch went into the house & told the woman that her husband was entertaining bad thoughts about her, but the woman would
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    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
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