School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 473
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- (continued from previous page)warned the evil doers, and that they subsequently desisted from the practice.
It is not known how the charm or spell was worked. Some say it could be done by milking a neighbour's cows early on a May morning. Others say that the hand of a dead person is got, and that the person working the spell goes through the neighbour's fields, shaking the hand over the cows, while reciting some incantation.
As members of both families are still living in Forgney, names may not be given.
- Collector
- B. Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
