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1. Local Historical Traditions - The Bad Times (continued)

   

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   the pigs in the orchard, free, from the priest When his two pigs were taken and no hope of getting them back until he could get the gun, the man made up his mind he would go and see Biddy Early. He did so and she asked him what he wanted or what was missing He would not tell her but said it was her business to tell him. She cut the cards for him but failed to even tell him the nature of his loss. She asked then if it were iron steel or wood and at first he refused to tell, but in the end he told her it was wood and iron. She then cut the cards again and immediately told him what his loss was and where to find it - in a large rabbit burrow half-concealed with nettles - but that in order to recover it he should remove his coat and thrust his arm well into the burrow. He returned home, did as Biddy Early told him, found his gun, returned it to the priest and so got back his two pigs." [This is almost a verbatim account of the incidents as told me by Paddy Casey (68) Tory Hill Croom. He is a stepson of the Paddy Lysaght (mentioned in the note before this) Mrs. Casey having been originally Mrs. Lysaght]

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir