Month: July 2021
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Summer Has Come
Dear Readers, The summer of 2021 has come and it is time for all of us storytellers to take a rest and recharge our batteries. There are 206 stories of various kinds placed within this blog and if you have read them all then we thank you. But you might consider going over your favourites […]
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Biddy’s – Cure at the Graves of Saints
At Dromahaire Abbey, in County Leitrim, many years ago there was a man saying his prayers in a part of the sacred enclosure. It is said that, when he rose from his knees, he took an iron spoon that lay under a slab covering a grave and put his hand into a hole up to […]
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Biddy’s – Knocknashee
For many years the idea of fairies and the little people brought a laugh and a disbelieving shake of the head from me. In later years I was to learn better and it is to be hoped that those doubters who shall read these stories will experience the same change in their thinking. It is […]
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Biddy’s – Neil Kelly’s Fortune
An Old Tale of Ireland There was nothing nice or polite about Neil Kelly. He simply told his wife that he was going to the forge to get a ‘doctoring instrument’ and off he went without another word being said. When he arrived at the forge he mumbled a greeting to the blacksmith, who asked […]
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