School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)"A man astray" then someone went to his relief and conducted him home.A person astray generally turned his coat, it being then supposed that the charm was broken.There was also a belief in "Wild Cats". In certain districts it was supposed they congregated and started crying as if to draw certain people around them and so get a chance of fighting and scraping them.I myself knew a man was afraid to go out after dark lest the wild cats should attack him.In this district yet (Gortermone and Carrigallen) there is a belief in the "Bean Shee". It is supposed that she wails, plainly to be heard, three nights in succession before the death of a member of certain families such(continues on next page)
