School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)

Location:
Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 476

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 476

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Smyth.
    When an unbaptised child dies it is buried in the Loragan.
    Peter Bruton
    Informant - Mrs. S. Bruton,
    Ringtown, Castlepollard.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Once the Holy Family were passing through a desert.
    There were a lot of spiders' webs on the sand. As they passed through they knocked down the webs, but no sooner had they gone than the spiders built up the webs again so that when the Jews who were following the Holy Family, to persecute them, came along they did not think that anyone had gone that way.
    Since that day it is said that a spider is a lucky creature and that he should not be abused.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
          1. the Holy Family (~429)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Shaw
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr Shaw
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tuitestown, Co. Westmeath