School: Béal Átha Gearr

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   know it. If a person played thirteen games with the Devil it is that that person would never have a days luck. This boy was just playing the thirteenth game when, by the grace of God I suppose, one of the cards fell to the ground. The boy stooped down to pick it up and as he did he saw that the other man had four cloven feet and he fainted. When he came to his senses again he went home and he never played a card after that.

   

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   Long ago in a village near Athlone there were a man and a woman and the had one child. After some time the woman died. One night not long after her death her husband saw her come in and look down at the child who was in the cradle. The man closed the door so that she could not go out but she told him that it was no use for she was but a shadow. She said she ate no food from the fairies yet and

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Miceál Mac Giollacomáin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   Barnacurra, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Máire Ní Ghiollacomáin

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   71

   Address

   Barnacurra, Co. Galway