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   “I never saw anything in this world worser looking than meself...”

   

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   and bawls when anyone is dying and that she follows certain families.

   

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2. Seventh Son

   

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   There was once a man and he was Jamsey Hogan was his name, a seventh son. When he was born his father put a worm in his hand and then he had a lot of charms, but if the worm wasn't put into his hand it would be no use and he would be the same a any man. When this boy was about seven years of age the charms began to work. One day his mother was setting a hen and when she was putting the eggs under the hen he asked her to let him have a look at them. The mother wondered greatly why he was wanting to look at them. He examined all the eggs and then he showed his mother three

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   Date

   3 Iúil 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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