met his neighbour Darby who asked him to take the car and horse back, and came upon the River Awbeg, continuing from open road to the road flanked by wooded areas. He noticed that the moon reflected on the pool of water disappear, and when he turned, he saw, proceeding beside his cart, a black coach drawn by six headless black horses, driven by a headless coachman clad in black. The next morning, Mick received news from the huntsman that Master Wrixon of Ballygibblin had a fit, and died. Croker in connection to this story remarks that the appearance of "Headless Coach" foreshadows imminent death, or misfortune. Croker reports one legend that a Headless Coach would run back and forth from Castle Hyde to a glen/valley beyond the village of Ballyhooly, in County Cork. Nearby in the town of Doneraile, it was said that the coach would visit the houses in succession, and whichever occupant dared to open the door would be splashed with a basin (basin-ful) of blood by the coachman. At any rate, the coach making a stop is a death omen, or ill omen for the "departing soul". Soundless Coach Cóiste Bodhar was referred to as "Soundless Coach" by Robert Lynd, who gave an account of a "silent shadow" of a coach passing by, provided by an avowed witness from Connemara. However William Butler Yeats explained that "the 'deaf coach' was so called because of its rumbling sound". According to one witness, only the silent shadow of the horse-drawn hearse, i.e, the "Soundless Coach" was seen passing by. Males and females The tale "The Good Woman" an encounter with cloaked female figure, who turned out to be a headless Dullahan. Later, he encounters many, both males and females. It happened to a resident of "White Knight's Country" at the foot the Galtee Mountains (Galtymore), a peasant named Larry Dodd, who was also the most skilled horse-breaker around. He traveled (westward) to Cashel where he bought a nag, intending to sell it at Kildorrery fair that June evening. He offered a ride to a cloaked female, stopping at "Kilnaslattery Church" to mend his shoe. When he grabbed her to exact a kiss as payment in kind for the ride, he discovered her to be a Dullahan. After losing grip of consciousness, he found that in the church ruins was a wheel of torture set with severed heads (skulls),