A spirit returns to carry off a tormenting child.
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
1956
Track ID
14362
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1956.179.2
Original Tape ID
Summary
A spirit returns to carry off a tormenting child.
Two families of Travellers spent the night in a barn. Next morning, a little girl was tormenting a boy by tickling him. Many years later, when she was grown up, she came to the same barn, with her mother and another old woman. The girl remembered the place and wanted to sleep between the older women. One of them heard laughing at midnight. One voice was coming closer, then there were two going away. The girl was dead in the morning: the boy she had tormented had come back for her.
Recording Location
County - Perthshire
Parish - Blairgowrie
Village/Place - Blairgowrie
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good