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   “One night there was a man from Inch coming home after playing cards about one o'clock...”

   

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   One night there was a man from Inch coming home after playing cards about one o'clock. When he was coming along the road he met three men carrying a coffin. He took pity on them and he decided that he would help them. He put his shoulder under the coffin and as he did so, the three men disappeared and left him alone to carry the coffin. He took off his braces and tied them around the coffin and put it on his back and took it home to his mother. When he went in he put the coffin up on the table. He undid the screws and took off the lid, and inside in the coffin he found a beautiful young girl asleep,

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   AT0990*: A Merchant's Son Finds the Princess Wounded in a Coffin

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret O' Driscoll

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Annagh, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   John Foley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Annagh, Co. Kerry