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1. The Floating Stone of Inch Island (continued)

   

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   any more effort from anyone it brought the corpse to the island and continued to do so until it was desecrated by a pair that had no reverence for God or any of his miracles and as soon as that vile act was done on the flag it broke in two. One half sank where it was, and never was seen again. The other half floated over to Roy shore and settled there on the strand. It was a blessing, but when it was desecrated it turned to a curse for some wicked person found out that every person who went near the stone was cursed, and the half of the curse fell on them and the half of the curse fell on the curser. A man in that district told me that he knew a woman who went and swept the stone and put a silver sixpence on it to give her curse to a man who put her out of a little house and garden. The man got out of his bed one night very soon after she gave the curse. People looked for him three days and nights. He was found in a quarry full of water and was drowned. To make the curse they had to sweep the stone and put sixpence on it. They must be very wicked and determined when

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   Language

   English

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   John Hastings

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