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The Knife Against the Wave

A Uniquely Irish Legend of the Supernatural

Bibliographic Data

ID8933007
AuthorsMiceal Ross (University College Dublin, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume105
Issue1-2
Pages83-88
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587x.1994.9715876
OpenAlexW2029624831
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

There was a gentleman one time fishing on Lough Allen, himself his boy. The lake was pure calm, but about the middle of the day he looked before him, he saw a great wave rising. As the wave was getting near them it was getting bigger bigger; they were greatly alarmed, he did not know what to do. The gentleman in his trouble fear took a dart he had in the boat flung it with all his might main at the giant wave. No sooner nor he did the lake became as calm as a boghole. The gentleman found himself greatly fatigued, struck for the shore, as he landed on the shore he found he was hardly able to walk. So when he came to his own house that was over the lake on the hill, his mother asked him was he ill? he said not, but that he was very fatigued, that he'd go to bed for a while and if anybody comes enquiring for me, tell them I'm out for he wanted to rest

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,07
Citation span1998 - 2015 (18)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2
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