Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
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- (continued from previous page)the Black Hill for you, would you give me ten shillings?"
"Begob, I will," says the man of the house The ould man only went out an walked around the ricks, and then he got a piece of paper & wrote down something on it and stuck it on the rick; and the rats came out in droves, and they all headed for the Black Hill over, and there in it yet. - When the bow is heard they say that she is some member of the families that is lost - she is some wan related to 'em & she is damned. That's what the bow is supposed to be.
Other people say that she is a fallen angel going around lamenting over people going to die.
She follows a lot of people around here anyway. When any of our family (Carroll) are going to die 'tis black ravens are seen on the house.