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School: Baile Glas (roll number 13654)

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Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
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Cáit Ní Rúis
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  1. Old Customs and Beliefs

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    The old Irish people had many customs, some of which arose from superstitious ideas, concerning the making of butter, and the milking of cows. The following are a few.
    If a person went into a house and the people of the house to be making a churning, they reckoned that if the person did not help with the churning there would not be half the return in it, and that the person came in to spoil the churning.
    Another belief was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Grealy
    Gender
    Male