School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 226
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- One night a man was coming home very late through the bog and he was taking a pinch of snuff. When he was putting it in he heard a voice saying "Not yet, not yet, I am near you, wait".
He looked round but he could see no one. He took out a pinch of snuff and he felt it being taking by invisible fingers. When he drew back his hand the snuff had disappeared. "God and the saints between us and harm" exclaimed the man. "Amen" said a clear voice of some invisible speaker close beside him.
Then the man made the sign of the cross over the hand touched by the spirit and so went unharmed.
- Collector
- Mary Marmion
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
