It was not at all singular in that dark state of
popular superstition and ignorance, that the shower of blood should,
somehow or another, be associated with him and his detested mother. Of
course, the association was vague, and the people knew not how to apply
it to their circumstances. As they believed, however, that Mrs. Lindsay
possessed the power of overlooking cattle, which was considered an evil
gift, and in some mysterious manner connected with the evil spirit, and
as they remembered--for superstition, like guilt, always possesses a
good memory--that even in his young days, when little more than a child,
her son Harry was remarkable for having eyes of a different color, from
which circumstance he was even then called _Harry na Suil Gloir_, they
naturally inferred that his appearance in the country boded nothing
good; that, of course, he had the Evil Eye, as every one whose eyes
differed, as his did, had; and that the thunder and lightning, the
rain which drowned the bonfires, but, above all, the blood-shower, were
indications that the mother and son were to be feared and avoided as
much as possible, especially the latter.
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