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Folk- Falcs from Western Ireland.

right thing to give the dog was a " young foal." Could this be some dimmed tradition of the sacrifices of horses to an evil power ?

A Woman put out of Her Way.

Nancy Cunningham, an old woman in Killeaden, told me how she was once " put out of her way." She was returning one night from a neighbour's house, but omitted to take a coal with her, as she had only a very short distance to go, and she knew she would soon see the light in her own cottage. But when she ought to have seen it she did not see it, and had to keep walking on. It seemed to her she was going through a wood, and yet she knew she must be close to her cottage, and there was no wood. At last she remembered that to take off something she wore and turn it inside out would dispel the glamour. So she took off her shawl and turned it the other way, and instantly found herself at a neighbour's borin, and long past her own cottage.

A Churchyard Arparition.

Tadhg Conlon, of Lisdubh, an old man, told me of what he saw on the church-road that runs through Killeaden. There is a dip in this road called Pullaghwan, where uncanny things are supposed to occur. Tadhg was return- ing from a visit to his cousin in Killeaden, and found himself about midnight near this place. As he got to Pullaghwan he saw a dark figure by the side of the road, and he thought it was a man watching his turf, for turf was being then stolen from the bog. He spoke to the figure and got no answer, and then saw it was standing in some- thing — which he presently discovered was a coffin. He hurried by, and then looked back, to see the figure and the coffin rise up from the ground. " I seen them. in the air," he said, " and it was not long till I was at the top of the rise."