smell of moss and peat-smoke on them. But as to this nonsense about witches preached by the foreign priests—not the pious homegrown variety, mark you, but the English, German and Eyetalian kind: "Arrah, would ye be havin' me belave har-rm o' ould Biddy Shane as niver har-rmed man nor baste in all 'er life? Be off wid ye, ye lyin' divil, or I'll be takin' me fist off th' end o' yer nose, so I will!"
And that, I am convinced, is why there is so little witchcraft in Irish folklore.
Newcomer
No less than other magazines, Weird Tales likes to turn up a promising new writer every now and then. We feel we have done just this in presenting James Causey, whose story, The Statue, appears in this number. This is Mr. Causey's first sale to any magazine, although he has been writing for some time and recently won a prize in a short story contest.
While attending Loyola University some time ago Causey was encouraged in his writing efforts by Myles Connolly, former editor and at present a motion picture scenarist.
Mr. Causey tells us he has been a public stenographer, a brush salesman and a political campaign speaker . . . and, of course, a writer.
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THE TWO MOONS OF TRANQUILLIA
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QUEST OF A NOBLE TIGER
THE STATUE
ONE-MAN BOAT
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