School: Na Creaga
- Location:
- Creggs, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Breandáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)He stood watching her and all of a sudden she burst into a wild cry, and vanished. The man grew frightened for he then realised that it was not a person belonging to this life he had seen. He went to the fair and when he came home he heard that the daughter of one of his neighbours was (ded) dead. Then he knew that it was the Bean-Shide he had seen.In other places a coach comes up to the door at midnight and stays until the person is dead. Then it goes away. Sometimes a ghostly funeral goes from the house of the dead person to the grave-yard. It is often followed by women who cry and wring their hands over the coffin.When the "funeral" reaches the grave-yard, it fades away at the spot where the person it to be buried.
- Collector
- Eddie Fitzmaurice
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coalpits, Co. Galway
