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Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 293

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    let the tailor go. He got a big bulldog and he put him in the sack instead. When the devil came out he took the sack on his back and every bush and wall he would meet he would strike the sack against it. Of course the bulldog was going mad inside. When he came to hell he shouted for the gates of hell to be closed tight so that the tailor would not get out. So all gathered round the devil opened the sack, when he did the bulldog jumped up and bit the nose of the devil he jumped again and and bit something else that the devil shouted for the gates of hell to be opened quickly to put out the tailor, he said that there would never be a tailor let inside the gates of hell again.?
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0330A: The Smith and the Devil (Death)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Drury
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrycoagh, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Owen Forde
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Derrycoagh, Co. Roscommon