School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 148
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- Once upon a time a man was coming from his work at night and he saw a black thing, so he said to himself, - "that is like a black sheep," then he made the sign of the cross and it disappeared. When he came to the place where the thing was standing he fell into a big hole and he said to himself that he was in hell. A man to him and said, "What would you give me if I would take you out." The man that wanted to get out told him he would give him one box of matches and one ounce of tobacco, and the other man said he would take him out. So the man took him out and the next Sunday the priest was preaching about anyone that went to hell never got out and the man said he got for an ounce of tobacca and a box of matches.
- Collector
- Maggie Long
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Grace Long
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
