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   meet the "Féar Gorta". The latter was grass and when any person would pass it they would become dead hungry. The cure for it was to eat something.

   In some fields there is a "stray sod". A certain man named John Donegan of Mullinavalley was looking for sheep at night. He walked on this "stray sod" and he went to the gap. To his horror and surprise there was none there. He began going round the field but still could find no gap. He saw a light. Going up to it he found it was a man looking for him at the gap. The cure for it was to turn your coat inside out. Then say an Our Father and three Hail Marys and the "charm" was gone.

   On a Hallow eve night the people would sweep the hearthstone very clean. They then would go to bed. In the morning they would look for a footstep on the hearthstone. If the step went towards the door it was the trace of a coffin. If it did not it was all right. When two persons would wash their hands in a basin, the second person would spit in the basin before he washed because if he did not do so

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Donegan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mullaghavally, Co. Meath