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   near Crearon. The men sat on the fort eating their dinner. After a while they heard delph rattling and they saw four chimneys. They stuck the handle of a fork down one chimney and they heard a voice saying "If ye don't go soon ye'll go in a hurry." One night when Michael Burns was going visiting his friends in Kilconnell he saw a cat running along the road. He was just passing Kellys in Liscune, Ballymacward, Woodlawn, County Galway. The cat ran up an old avenue and when he went in a few yards he turned himself into a dog. The dog turned around at Michael and barked at him. This cat appears on dark nights.

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2. Strange Animals

   

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   3. One night Guard Staunton was out cycling and when he was passing Scarries well he saw a small woman sitting under a wall. He asked her "what are you doing there at this time of the night?" Then she changed herself into a dog and all the wall fell. When he reached the barrack he fainted.
   One night John Dempsey and Henry Bolton were coming home from a fair in Athenry

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