School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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- (continued from previous page)they would have a family. So she went out to the field to the man, and began to cry, about what the woman was going to do to him that night.
So the man went to bed, and pretended to fall asleep. Now and again, the wife would look to see was be asleep. When she thought he was, she brought the razor ove to cut the hair.
The man jumped up, seized the razor and cut her throat.
Next morning, the woman met the devil. He handed the purse of gold to her, on the top of a fishing rod. and he said. "I cannot go any nearer to you, for you beat the devil."
- Collector
- Frances Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyarran, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Dunne
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
