School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)

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1. The Circular Charm (continued)

   

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   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.

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2. Piseoga which Nullify Harm

   

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   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

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