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 Excerpt from my novel FATE. Holy Water and the Jinx of Retribution   Her father, being the exemplary Christian man he was, who had ambitions in his youth of becoming a friar, blessed the house several times on any given day of the week with holy water from one of the several Saint Patrick’s Wells in Ireland, thinking that the Jinx could be warded off through divine intervention and the workings of holy water in the same manner that Patrick had driven the snakes out of Ireland. These wells, steeped in the legend and tradition of having been blessed by the saint himself, were believed to possess miraculous properties.        Fiadh’s father thought these healing qualities in the holy water could influence the Jinx to move out of the Whaling Station, telling his daughter that it was just a matter of having faith in Patrick ... and that the Jinx should be no problem for a man who could...