School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)open it.
The man said "I am not able."
Then the man of the Dead Hunt said "I will open it"
He open the box and gave him a small shoe and a hammer.
The other man hammered it on to the horses foot. The man of the Dead Hunt then told him not to be out at that hour any other night or he would not live long.
The next night the man met the Dead Hunt again. The last man asked him what Did he tell him the night before.
Then the man ran home and when he reached home he died at his door.
When the Dead Hunt came the next night the man came came to life.
- Collector
- Josephine Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Phelan
- Gender
- Female
