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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 201

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    (1) If a person hits you with a hazel stick he or she will get a pair in his or hers head
    (2) If thirteen people sit at the table together one of them will be dead by that day twelve months.
    (3) You should never cut brambles out of a fort or destroy it because the fairies would do something to you.
    (4) Thirteen is an unlucky number
    (5) Mirrors are turned towards the wall when a person dies in the house.
    (6) You should not begin your work on a Saturday
    (7) If a picture falls off the wall some one will die in the house
    (8) If you dream of someone being dead you will hear from the living
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Galvin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gallen, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs J. Galvin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gallen, Co. Offaly