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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 044

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  1. Whit Times - Danger in the Water

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    It is dangerous to go into water on Whit week especially Whit Monday and Whit Sunday.
    '' You would be nearly sure to get something out of it ''
    Johnny Feery was as fine a lad as you'd see till he went bathing on Whit Monday.
    He got deformed lost the use of one eye and one leg grew so much shorter that ever after he had a very bad limp.
    Thomas Frank went fishing on Whit Sunday and cut his foot in the river.
    It was but a small cut but blood-poisoning developed and '' all the doctors in the world couldn't save him ''
    There were plenty more happened to the same from going into the water at Whit.
    So always the caution the old people gave us was:-
    '' Never go into the water at Whit ''
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Whitsun (~59)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frank Maguire
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullybrack, Co. Cavan