S02E58 Taig O'Kane and The Corpse by Douglas Hyde

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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An Irish story told by Douglas Hyde, first president of Ireland and the craoibhinn aobhinn himself. I thought it was about time we did an Irish story and this is hits all the targets.A wastrel boy compromises the reputation of a local girl and when he goes out on the road to think, he meets a party of the fairy folk and they give him something to carry, and something to bury.Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back, isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:20.1	What's the secrets of dead comeback?
0:22.4	Tegor Kane and the corpse by Douglas Hyde.
0:27.4	There was once a grown-up lad in the county Litrum,
0:31.2	and he was strong and lively,
0:33.2	and the son of a rich farmer.
0:35.7	His father had plenty of money,
0:39.1	and he did not spare it on the son.
0:43.3	Accordingly, when the boy grew up, he liked sport better than work,
0:45.9	and as his father had no other children,
0:52.0	he loved this one so much that he allowed him to do in everything just as it pleased himself.
0:57.0	He was very extravagant, and he used to scatter the gold money as another person would scatter the white. He was seldom to be found at home, but if there was a fair
1:03.7	or a race or a gathering within ten miles of him, you were dead certain to find him there.
1:13.6	And he seldom spent a night in his father's house, but he always used to be out rambling, and like Sean Bui long ago, there was
1:19.6	Grogach Kalinimralachalena, the love of every girl in the breast of his shirt.
1:26.6	And it's many a kiss he got, and he gave, for he was very of every girl in the breast of his shirt.
1:27.5	And it's many a kiss he got, and he gave, for he was very handsome, and there wasn't a girl
1:33.8	in the country but would fall in love with him, only for him to fasten his two eyes on
1:38.6	her, and it was for that someone made this run on him.
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