School: Tráigh Phraisce (B.) (roll number 5565)
- Location:
- Trafrask, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
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Putting bad eggs and dead animals into other people's land in order to bring bad luck to them.
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Long ago the people used kill a crowing hen as they used say "A whistling woman or a crowing hen there is not luck or grace in the house they are in"
(3)
If a person come in through one door he would not be left out through another as it is said he would bring out the luck of that house with him.
(4)
If you hit a person with a fairy-finger it is said something bad would happen to that person.
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People say if you struck a person with a brush that person would not grow any more.
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If you met a red-haired woman when you would be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seumas O Dúbnáighe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Trafrask West, Co. Cork
