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   A man who had a horse sick
   
   There was a man living in this village who had a horse sick. He went to Biddy Earley. Biddy Early was a peculiar woman. The man told her about the horse. She said she could do nothing for his horse. She brought a large bottle of water out of a room.
   
   She said if she could to anything for the horse, the horse and the field where it happened would appear in it, but it didn't.
   
   While he was gone, a man dressed up the horse in ribbons and laurels. She told the man to go home, and tell the man who dressed up the horse, not to be making a fool of her.
   
   She also told man to open the horse's mouth and look at her tongue. He found that all one side of her mouth was eaten out of her with the disease.
   
   The man that dressed up the horse, while the other man was gone to Biddy Earley, went home and got his own horse lying down on the field. So he had to go to Biddy Earley also to get his horse cured.
   
   Biddy Early told him to tie a horse nail to her tail, and after e few days the horse was cured and Biddy Earley forgave the man for fooling her.
   
   Written by Neil Conroy
   Ballygowan
   Abbey
   Loughrea
   Co. Galway

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Neil Conroy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballygowan, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Michael Molloy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballygowan, Co. Galway