School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)Family had entered an old house, a spider made its web across the entrance.
When the soldiers came, they saw the web & said that if they had gone in, the web would be broken & that is how Our Lord was saved.
- When the Holy Family was fleeing to Egypt a deargdale, a long black insect, told the soldiers that the Holy Family had passed, Everything was able to speak long ago
It is said that if you are able to kill a deargdale before he cocks his tail, you get whatever you wish for. - Collector
- Patrick Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- As from Official Notes, except that a deargdale is mentioned instead of a chafer.
When he said "Indé", one of the men put his fooot on him & killed him with his tail down.
It is said that if you kill a deargdale with his tail down, seven sins are taken off your soul. - When Crist was dying on the Cross, a little robin came & tried to take the thorns out of His Head. Drops of blood reached the(continues on next page)
