School: An Aill (Aille)

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   the tinker choked the woman and when the three days and three nights were up Jack came to bring home the bin. When Jack had the bin at home he lifted up the lid but the woman was dead and he saw that she must have choked herself with the bone. So Jack buried the mother and that night the tinker and Paddy lifted her up again, and they left her standing outside Jack's door. In the morning when Jack got up he got a terrible fright when he saws his mother outside his door again. Then he went and asked the priest what was the cause of it. So the priest blessed the grace and he told Jack to bury her again and Jack did. That night the tinker and Paddy raised up the woman and left her standing outside his door again. Next morning the same tinker was waking around and he into Jack house. Then Jack asked the tinker did he know what was the cause of his mother rising from the dead. They told Jack that his mother was a very greedy woman and that she would not give anything to the poor. Then the tinker told Jack to go and bury the woman and to give half of all he owned to Paddy and that she would not rise

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   AT1536A: The Woman in the Chest

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Burns

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Martin Rourke

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   54

   Address

   Cullenagh, Co. Galway