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School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)

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Newmarket, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 256

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  1. Another Story About the Holy Family

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    On the journey between Nazareth and Egypt there grew very large trees the trunks of them were nearly as big as rooms.
    One day it happened that Herod's soldiers who were sent by Herod to capture the Holy Family had almost over-taken them the Holy Family went into the trunk of one of these trees.
    Just then a spider, quick as lightning, spun it's web across the entrance of the tree.
    When the soldiers came to the trees they saw the unbroken web, and being in a hurry they said one to another if anybody had
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Sullivan
    Gender
    Female