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1. Legends of St. Patrick (continued)

   

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   him across he got angry, and he put a curse on the water that no fish would ever be caught in it again. The fishermen began to wonder the next morning when they could catch no fish, for they could see plenty of them in the water and they would even be in the nets and yet when they draw them in there would be nothing in them.
   But when St. Pat found out that it was effecting the poor fishermen that were so kind to him he got sorry for what he had done, and he took the curse off the water again, but he had taught the hard master a lesson.
   I got this story from my father who heard it when he was a small boy, but he doesn't know from whom, Seán de Bruilúr [?]

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Edward Gough