School: Mountbellew (roll number 12352)
- Location:
- Mountbellew, Co. Galway
- Teacher: William Hans
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- (continued from previous page)331that. So at that moment a very bright light shown in the door and who stood before their eyes but the man's first wife, who was supposed to be dead long before and she turned to the little boy's step-mother and said "God bless and save you, you have saved my son from the hands of that witch." She then told the man to go out and that he would find his horse dead. Then she went out the door again and was never seen again. The man went out then and found his horse dead. Mamie Downey BovinionThe above was told to me by my father Michael Downey aged 64 years.
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