The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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    When one who was supposed to possess an evil eye passed a remark about a person...

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ní Ailledéa, Mrs M. Halliday

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    A woman lived in Carnagur who had an evil eye.

    CBÉS 0037

    Eibhlín Ni Ailledéa, Mrs M. Halliday

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  3. A Tale of the Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0183

    Peter Mc Goldrick

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  4. Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0221

    Michael Martin, P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

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  5. Witchcraft and Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0226

    Bernadette Leaden, John Maxwell

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  6. Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0229

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  7. The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0254

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  8. Superstition - The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0254

    Violet Notley

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  9. Witchcraft Mixed with Religion - Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0315

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  10. The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0438

    Míchéal Ó h Ainféin

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  11. Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0465

    Mrs Hussay

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  12. Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0465

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  13. The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0622

    James Barrington

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  14. Ainmhithe na Feirme - The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0624

    Seán Mac Consaidín

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    The belief of the evil eye or that people would curse you must have been very prevalent.

    CBÉS 0640

    George Greenslade, James Cashman

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  16. Power of the Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0699

    Renee Sheerin

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    About ten or twenty miles away from this school there is a well, known as the well of the evil eye, and a very strange thing happens at it, when cattle come to it for a drink.

    CBÉS 0740

    Dick Nangle, Joseph Crinnegan

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  18. The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0741

    Eamon Mc Garry, John Dowling

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  19. The Evil Eye

    CBÉS 0741

    T.F. Mc Garry

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    It was believed until quite recent times, that certain people had the 'Evil Eye'...

    CBÉS 0750

    Irene Finnegan

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