School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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“The banshee follows certain families.”
(continued from previous page)combing her hair. He got such a fright that he fell in on the floor in a faint.
- Anyone born with a blue vein across his nose it is a sign of that person being drowned. Anyone born with a mole on his neck is also a sign of drowning. There is a haunted house at Littletown bridge and it is said that when the end of the world is coming a black pig will run out of that house and run across the bog. If a person's knees are itchy it is a sign they will be kneeling in a strange chapel. If the nose is itchy it is(continues on next page)
