Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. A Witch Befriends a Young Boy (continued)

   

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   be hurted. And you're going to a match on Sunday, and take my advice and stay at home for you're mare will be stuck in a trench and you'll have to pull her out of it".
   She went away and left him at that.
   Something struck him to be said by the ould woman. So he told some of the others that he wasn't feeling well, and that he'd have to go home.
   Sure enough the she fell that night, and one of the men got his leg broken.
   The following Sunday he didn't go to the match. The mare got stuck in a trench and he had to go look men to pull her out.
   Well, that ould woman was wan of the Good People and she came to do this young man a good turn.

   

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2. Swan's House

   

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   That house of Swan's there on the hill into Galbally was said to be haunted. There was a pane of glass out of the back window, and no matter how often they'd put it in 'twould be gone out of it again next morning. It was said that it was a path for the fairies at night.

   

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