School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)away. Healys pigs ate each other, and one of Thompsons cows ran a horn through another cow. People noticed that some misfortune happened in each farm through which they passed, and that too within a week.
The same man and his sons were seem another time lining up their cows in the field and walking around them in a peculiar fashion.
They were troubled with abortion in cattle and wrecked not the means used to cure it.
- A farmers wife who knew that her milk was being carried, put a ploughshare behind the fire one fine May morning.
The woman suspected of carrying the milk came rushing to the door shouting "For Gods sake take out the ploughshare, and I will never offend again".
When eggs are found in hay, or buried on ones haggard burn them whole behind the fire. The person who buried them will get a fit of choking in the presence of the person to whom he wished to transfer the disease.
An old diseased body of a hen must also(continues on next page)
