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   “It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them.”

   

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   there was a Maybush opposite every door. The Jews went into some house and asked the people of the house where did they think they would find our Lord. They were told that they would find him in the first house they'd see without a Maybush, so they searched all the houses in the locality and they couldn't find one without a Maybush. So in this Co. it is considered a lucky thing to put up a May-bush on a May morning. When our Lord was carrying his cross to Calvary a robin came along behind him and covered up the blood that day on the ground, and in doing so some blood remained on it's breast. Ever since then the

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir