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School: Straboe (roll number 12934)

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Straboe, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 185

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    Frogs are very plentiful around the bogs here. Sometimes people catch them in their hands and hurt them, if they squeak they are cursing the person who hurts them or kills them. The people do not interfere with the frogs on that account. They have a superstition that the curses might have effect.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christina Bergin
    Gender
    Female