estórias de maynooth...

"I've heard tell of the cloven foot. There is a story about it in Maynooth College. It seems as though the students were studying and it was their last studying before they became the priests. And instead of studying they were playing cards. And a strange student came on the scene to play cards with them. And, of course, as always happens with these stories, the Ace of Spades fell and one of the boys stooped down for to pick up the card and saw the cloven foot. And two of them committed suicide and one of them lived long enough for to tell the story. And there is supposed to be something about the footmark being still there in the College. I've seen a mark that looks like that of a cow's foot. I've seen it in the College. Me brother-in-law brought me up to it one time and showed it to me and he laughed when I said, `how did the cow's footmark get into the tile?' It was supposed to have been the devil himself coming to tease the boys before they became priests, you know?"

http://www.folklore.ee/rl/pubte/ee/usund/ingl/lysaght.html


Eu ouvi falar do pé do diabo. Há uma história na faculdade de Maynooth. Os estudantes deviam estar a estudar para se tornarem padres. E, em vez disso, jogavam cartas. Um estudante desconhecido apareceu para jogar. Como acontece sempre nestas histórias, o Ás de Espadas caiu e um dos rapazes inclinou-se para para apanhar a carta e viu o pé de cabra (do diabo).Dois deles cometeram suícidio e um deles viveu o suficiente para contar a história. A pegada supostamente ainda está na faculdade. Eu vi uma marca que se parecia com o pé de uma vaca na faculdade. O meu cunhado mostrou-ma e riu quando eu disse, "como ficou a pegada da vaca no azulejo?' é suposto ter sido o próprio diabo que vem arreliar os meninos antes de se tornarem padres, sabes?