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1. Story - Headless Horses and Pack of Hounds

   

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   Long ago there lived two gentlemen named Cox and Shine. They were two Protestants, and they lived in a big mansion, and used have men working in the kitchen garden for them. In this garden were growing apples, grapes, strawberries, pears, and some other fruit. After a few years Cox died, two men went stealing apples and they pulled five stone of apples, and when they were coming home they met fifteen horses without heads and a pack of hounds. This is said to be the dead hunt, and among those was Cox. And they heard a shout behind them "leave them down, or we will kill you". The men got such a fright that they ran for their lives, and they left down the apples. When they looked back the apples were gone.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John O' Brien

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Dunworth

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   83

   Address

   Kilmore, Co. Limerick