The Dearg-Daol

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Thomas Duhig

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“Many of the old tales connected with the rural parts of Country Limerick deal with tight-fisted housewives...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“In thatched country farmhouses, a little plant called a "toirpín" is always placed over the door and set in a cow-dung...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“People say that murderers used be placed face-downwards in the coffin so that they could never rise again.”

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Thomas Duhig

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“Bats rapping at windows portend that someone of the inmates is about to die.”

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Thomas Duhig

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“When a sow farrows, the offspring are taken away according as they are farrowed. This is to prevent their being smothered or eaten by the sow...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“When a person dies in a house, the clock is stopped until the corpse leaves the house for burial.”

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Thomas Duhig

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“The water in which a corpse is washed is put under the bed until the corpse is being removed to the church...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“When a two frogs come into a dwelling-house, one if the inmates is supposed to die.”

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Thomas Duhig

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“One day, a local wit, who had just come down a step in the world was engaged in breaking stones on the roadside for the County Council...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“Much superstition centres round the hair of a human head...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“Some of the more blood-thirsty of the older generation used keep a human hand to effect certain cures...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“On St. Brigid's Night, a black band of ribbon is hung out, and measured...”

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Thomas Duhig

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“The filament round a foal when born is kept and cured and hung in the cowshed...”

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Thomas Duhig

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The Landlord

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Thomas Duhig

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Old Ghost Stories

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Thomas Duhig

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Old Crafts

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Thomas Duhig

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Marriage Customs

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Thomas Duhig

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Story of a Local Landlord

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Thomas Duhig

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The Care of Our Farm Animals

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Thomas Duhig

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