Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Wake Games (continued)

   

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   There was a crowd of harvestors drinking their tea one day and it was a very warm day, and also very calm. Suddenly a whirlwind came from the east up along the field and scattered around a lot of sheaves of corn, and knocked down a stack. People say that it isn't lucky to be in the way of a whirl wind, that when a person sees it coming they should draw the sign of the cross on their forehead and jump out of the way, for it is believed that the "good people" have something to do with it.

   There were two old men one night talking about "big winds". One of them was trying to better the other. The first man said that he was ploughing one day, and an

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir