'Is it the head-without-body that came again?' said Carrol.
'It was not, but a big black thing, and it was digging up my mother's grave until I made two halves of it.'
Lawrence slept that day, and when the evening came he rose up, put on his sword, and went to the churchyard. He sat down on a tombstone until it was the middle of the night. Then he saw a thing as white as snow and as hateful as sin; it had a man's head on it, and teeth as long as a flax-carder. Lawrence drew back the sword and was going to deal it a blow, when it said—
'Hold your hand; you have saved your mother's body, and there is not a man in Ireland as brave as you. There is great riches waiting for you if you go looking for it.'
Lawrence went home, and Carrol asked him did he see anything.
'I did,' said Lawrence, 'and but that I was there my mother's body would be gone, but there's no fear of it now.'
In the morning, the day on the morrow, Lawrence said to Carrol—
'Give me my share of money, and I'll go on a journey, until I have a look round the country.'
Carrol gave him the money, and he went walking. He went on until he came to a large town. He went into the house of a baker to get bread. The baker began talking to him, and asked him how far he was going.
'I am going looking for something that will put fear on me,' said Lawrence.