You Feeling-Hearted Christians

DESCRIPTION: Farmer Robert Brown's wife died and left him with two children. Robert remarries and his new wife kills both children with poison. She cuts her own throat with a razor. Her ghost appears to Robert saying "my case it is now wretched" because of her crime.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
KEYWORDS: crime homicide death suicide poison punishment children stepmother ghost
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 195, "You Feeling-Hearted Christians" (1 text)
Roud #16244
File: OCC195

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