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School: Dromlachan

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Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
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Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 443

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  2. The Robin and the Black Beetle

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    When Jesus was dying on the cross and His blood was flowing from heart to hand, a black beetle climbed up the cross and sucked His blood. But the Robin brought moss and tried to stop the flow of blood. In doing this some of His blood came on her breast, and that is why the Robin has a redbreast and also the reason why you should always crush a black beetle whenever you see on.
    Some say that Jesus once sent the Robin with a message to the souls in Purgatory and that she burned her breast there, and that is how she comes to have a redbreast.
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