School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 148
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“I heard it more than once that those who want to make themselves invisible, to do any bad work, can do it in this way.”
I heard it more than once, that those who want to make themselves invisible, to do any bad work, can do it in this way. They would get a black cat and kill it, and boil it, wholesale until it would be in jelly. They would take out the bones, then one by one without breaking any of them, and as they took them out, they would hold them before a looking glass, and the one that would not show in the glass, would give them the power to be invisible when they'd be doing the dirty work"
(Practising pishogues) M.--O'D.--)(continues on next page)