School: St Columba’s, Coggale

Location:
Cogaula, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Fiacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 468

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 468

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    When a cow is after a calf a piece of red flannel containing a horse-shoe nail and hens' droppings used to be tied on her tail
    If a farmer was unlucky with cattle or sheep he sometimes left one dead animal unburied so that the dogs would scatter his bad luck over the country
    If you catch a rat, and burn some of the hair off him, and let him go, all the rats around your place will go
    If you do anything on a weasel he will come and have revenge on you by killing chickens or ducks
    If you catch a rat, and tie a piece of paper to him, and write another person's name on the paper, the rat, if let go, will bring all the other rats to that person
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English