School: Scoil na mBráthar, Inis (roll number 16677)

Location:: Ennis, Co. Clare
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Biddy Early

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There are many stories told about a woman with her magic bottle, "Biddy Early" is the woman's name, and I am now going to write a story about her. There was once a man living in Quin, and his wife was very ill, so he set out on his horse to visit Biddy Early. He had to pass a cross to get to her house. When he went in she gave him a certain cure, and gave him the directions of how to use it. She also told him, when he was going home, that if his horse would pass the cross he
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Topics
1. agents (~1)
  supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
  Biddy Early (~186)
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