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1. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality (continued)

   

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   met a crowd of men and they asked him to go with them that they wanted him very badly to kill a bull for them. He said he wouldn't go and they said they'd give him anything he'd ask if he'd go with them and kill the bull. So after much force he went and they brought him to a house and the first person he saw in the house was the girl that he was going to her wake. She was working in the kitchen. He killed the red bull anyway, and then he asked the men to give him the girl for killing the bull. They refused, and said they'd give him anything else but her. But he said he'd take nothing only the girl and that if they didn't give her to him he'd burn the house, and cut every bush in the fort nearby. They gave her then and he took her to his own house and left her there and then went on to the corpse house to the wake. He knocked at the door and the man of the house came out and the butcher asked if there were any strangers at the wake. The man said there wasn't, and the butcher then told him to bring a big creel of turf and kindle a big fire. The man did so and when the fire was kindled the butcher went up to the room and brought down the corpse and

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Sonny Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloone, Co. Leitrim