School: Tiobraid Árann, Cl. na Trócaire (roll number 9432)

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   “There is an old legend common in this district that when the Holy Family was from Herod...”

   

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   There is an old legend common in this district that when the Holy Family was from Herod into Egypt, they hid in a cave behind some nettles growing in it Herod’s soldiers were following them, and when they saw the cave they were about to enter and search it when the leader noticed a spider’s web all across the entrance. He said it would be waste of time to search it as no one could have gone in there without dashing aside the spider’s web He thought the web should have been spun long before that day, but it must have

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   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. scéalta (~478)
         1. scéalta cráifeacha (~1,085)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   May Martin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs Mullins

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tiobraid Árann, Co. Thiobraid Árann