Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. A Fool (continued)

   

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   he see himself in a big mirror and he thought twas the devil. Some wan told him to get Holy water and to shake it on him, and say, "Satan I renounce you."
   Jack got a bucket of water and he heaved it at the mirror "Ye Snotty nose," says he, "I'll drown yez."

   

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2. Black Art

   

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   They say that you could get the power from the devil to work the Black Art if you held the joker (joker of cards) with the priest when he'd be at the Elevation.

   

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   “If you were digging for money and we'll say a bull came...”

   

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   If you were digging for money and we'll say a bull came and attacked you. they say if you had a twoshilling piece cut up and the gun loaded with it that you could shoot the bull. That's on account of the Cross on it I suppose.

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   Date

   Aibreán 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Séamas de Faoite

4. (no title)

   “Tisn't lucky for any relation to touch a corpse.”

   

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   Tisn't lucky for any relation to touch a corpse. That is any relation of the person that would be dead.

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