Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, Second Series

o may be among them: "There's some places of their own we should never touch such as the forths; and if ever we cross their pathways we're like to know it soon enough, for some

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eeds and put in the crop each year, and if I'd stopped there I wouldn't have had enough to keep trousers to my back. In the way the place must be. I

m the reason they said if they opened the front door a sudden blast would come in, that would take the roof off the house.

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roof on. Surely it's in the way of their coming and going. And Doctor Nolan's father began to build a barn one time, and what

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none of the stories; since my children died and a weight came on my heart all those things went from me. Yes, it's true Father Boyle banished the dog; and there was a cousin of my own used to live in the hous

ng, but often in the night I could hear music playing and no one else in the house

ight talking and laughing and they saw a big dark man pass by, but he never spoke

aid I. "I know well you haven't much of it," says she; "but take my word and go away out of this house to some other place, for you're

ve stopped in it, and my seven fine children would be with me now. Took away they were by them and without ach

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at I'd go to America. But we knew it at last. For one day I was washing sheep down at Cahirglissane, and there is said to be the deepest water in the world in one part of that lake. And as I was standing by it, a sheep made a run and went between my two legs, and threw me into the water, and I not able to swim. And I wa

but she never came when the husband was there. And one day she came and said they were going to move now, to near Clifden. And she

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that, and they were laughing like geese-just the very sound of geese-and their boots were too large for their feet and were cl

house at Castleboy one time he went to sleep i

man, not like some of them that do have the house dirty. Well, one day a woman came to the door and asked for a dish of oaten meal, and she took it from the shelf, and gave it to her. "I'll bring it back to you tomorrow," says she, "it'll be easy getting it then when it's market day." "Do not," says the woman of the house, "for i

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age, and two or three died in it, and one night it blazed up and burned down, those th

d one after another, boys and girls, and then the husband died. And after that one of the boys that had died came to her and said "You'd best leave thi

and one of them was married, and there was a match to be made for the other, but the stepfather wouldn't allow her to give any of the land to her, so she said she'd go to America, and the priest drew up a stamped paper for her, that they'd keep a portion of money for her

in. And a first cousin of theirs-a Donovan-was near the Black Rock one night, and he saw them playing ball there, the wh

e other side of the bed, and he called out, and then he came out walking crooked, and his face drawn up on one side; and so he is since, and a neighbour taking care of him. And you'd hardly mind what a poor silly creature like him

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