Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0271
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“There was a man once and he had an evil eye.”
(continued from previous page)for some time and it happened that as he was setting down a ? caught in the covering of the evil eye and it was then open. The first thing that came along the road was a car and in the car were three men and they were training a young horse. They were farming the place where the man was resting, Peter Doran was his name, the horse began to leap and hurry and went off in an awful gallop. Then Peter knew that his eye was uncovered and he covered it immediately and went home. The next day everybody knew it that there were three men training a horse and the horse ran away and broke his leg and to be destroyed. One of the men involved were found to be dead in the car and another of them turned out the in the(continues on next page)