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1. Folk-Tales from Glen of Imaal - Laying a Spirit (ar lean)

   

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   to be brought back to Cranerin, to be buried. The Wicklow people, when they heard the funeral was coming, went to meet it. In derision, they buried him with his feet to the rising sun. He appeared to the two men who had buried him that night, and told them to change him in the grave. They did. (Duffy was from Glen Imaal).

   My grandfather was at the "laying" of Kenna's Spirit. There was a terrible crowd - 10,000 people, at the Chapel that day. They climbed up ladders, and took the slates off of the Church to look in.

   The whole family of Kennas, who were Protestants and Orangemen, turned Catholic after that.

   Note Pishogues:_-

   It is a general belief in this district, that if swallows build a nest anywhere in the farmyard - and if anyone from the house touches the nest, the cows will "milk" blood.

   It is considered unlucky to spill salt

   If the woman of the house is short of salt she must never ask her neigbhour for the loan of salt - she must ask for "a pinch, or handful of salt".

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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