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1. Fr Mc Govern's Death and the Origin of the Blessed Clay (continued)

   

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   One old man claimed when as a young boy to took a swelled knee and it was painful. He got one of his parents to go to bring him the blessed clay. It was put on the knee for him in the evening and at twelve o'clock that night, he claimed that he felt five cold fingers nibbling down his knee and then stopped. After a while he got his parents to remove the bandages off the knee with the result that the swelling was on the knee and the stiffness was gone and it was fully cured.

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2. Ghosts

   

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   In the townland of Cartonhugh Co. Sligo there was a house, which was haunted by a ghost in the days of long ago. There was two outside doors one on each side of the house opposite each other. At a certain hour every evening when the occupants of the house would be sitting round the fire

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