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tilt n Paddy Power is an old man in his eighties who lives in Mobile. He tells a lot of strange stories which nobody ever believes. My father doesn't believe a word he says so it is hard to get him to tell any story he has heard from the man. I have heard my father tell one of Paddy Power'...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/76391 2023-12-31T10:19:30+01:00 _tilt_ xxxx/xx/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76391 eng eng T 123 64-1 Father, Francis Dillon Mobile 1950's Mobile Southern Shore Virginia Dillon Mobile April 4, 1964 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13928 T_13928_tilt n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76391 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:22Z tilt n Paddy Power is an old man in his eighties who lives in Mobile. He tells a lot of strange stories which nobody ever believes. My father doesn't believe a word he says so it is hard to get him to tell any story he has heard from the man. I have heard my father tell one of Paddy Power's stories, but I don't think my father believes it. I have never heard the man tell it myself. Paddy Power and another man were in the woods. I think the man with him was his brother Dick. They went in to stay for the night in their _tilt_. A tilt is a house or cabin that men build in the woods to save themselves a trip home every night. It might be as much as five or six miles from the community. (over) [Reverse] On this particular night they were getting ready to have a mug- up. Dick was in the tilt and Paddy went down to the river outside to get some water. There were trees and bushes all along the river. Paddy was going to catch hold of a branch to support himself while he dipped up the water. Just as he put out his hand to catch the tree he saw a woman's hand right where he was going to put his own. I think there was a ring on the hand. He went back to the tilt and told his brother. I think the men left the tilt and walked home. Not long ago when my father was telling ghost stories, I mentioned this one. I couldn't get him to tell it. He said something like, "Don't you mind Paddy Power. He'll tell anything that suits himself". If he had told it I would probably have gotten more details. My father usually believes the ghost stories he tells. DICT CEN. Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used tilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the other NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY sense 1 in DNE-cit, not Sup; other side of card found at T_13927 Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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tilt n Paddy Power is an old man in his eighties who lives in Mobile. He tells a lot of strange stories which nobody ever believes. My father doesn't believe a word he says so it is hard to get him to tell any story he has heard from the man. I have heard my father tell one of Paddy Power's stories, but I don't think my father believes it. I have never heard the man tell it myself. Paddy Power and another man were in the woods. I think the man with him was his brother Dick. They went in to stay for the night in their _tilt_. A tilt is a house or cabin that men build in the woods to save themselves a trip home every night. It might be as much as five or six miles from the community. (over) [Reverse] On this particular night they were getting ready to have a mug- up. Dick was in the tilt and Paddy went down to the river outside to get some water. There were trees and bushes all along the river. Paddy was going to catch hold of a branch to support himself while he dipped up the water. Just as he put out his hand to catch the tree he saw a woman's hand right where he was going to put his own. I think there was a ring on the hand. He went back to the tilt and told his brother. I think the men left the tilt and walked home. Not long ago when my father was telling ghost stories, I mentioned this one. I couldn't get him to tell it. He said something like, "Don't you mind Paddy Power. He'll tell anything that suits himself". If he had told it I would probably have gotten more details. My father usually believes the ghost stories he tells. DICT CEN. Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used tilts, tilt-back, tilt line, Tilt's distance, BAY TILT, linneys, smoke like a tilt, sit in one end of a tilt and burn the other NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY sense 1 in DNE-cit, not Sup; other side of card found at T_13927 |
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T 123 64-1 Father, Francis Dillon Mobile 1950's Mobile Southern Shore Virginia Dillon Mobile April 4, 1964 References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 13928 T_13928_tilt n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/76391 |
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