School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0120, Page 216
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- (continued from previous page)came back she knew she was going astray, and she turned her shawl, and went on the path, and continued her way home safely.
The old people also used to say that a little man the name of Willo' the Wisp used to be going around at night, and this is the story of how he came into existence.
A Devil turned himself into a sovereign, and a man found him, and put him in his purse under, and tied it.
When he went to bed at night he put his purse under his head, and the sovereign began jumping under his head. The man felt it, and he got up, and got a stick and began striking the pillow. A voice from the sovereign told him to let him go, and that when he would go to hell he would not let him in.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonnagleragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Cloonnagleragh, Co. Mayo
