Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0089
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“I heard poor Jamsie White tellin "Awnie" Coen this yarn wan night an' us above ramblin' in Awnie's...”
(continued from previous page)an' save the hearers, if the baby hadn't a pig's head on her. She had three childre in all, but the second an' third war not quite is bad is the firsht. However none o' them could ate like ordinary childre, so she had ta get a special trough made for them ta feed out o' when they grew up to be women, it remained the sthill, the third daughter however, got married, an' her childhre had the mark too, an' it remained to the third generation
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“A weasel skin purse is supposed to be the luckiest purse a man could have...”
A weasel skin purse is supposed to be the luckiest purse a man could have, for he is never supposed to be out of money while he has it.
The skin is usually preserved with salt and nitre, or alum and milk. (no title)
“Crickets are lucky in insects in a home.”
Crickets are lucky in insects in a house. At Xmas if the cricket is heard chirping, he is said to be the King of all Luck.
If a person injured a cricket in another house. It is believed that he will go home with him in his clothes, and that he will cut any clothes belonging to him in the house. - An ould man came to Dan O'Connell wan day, an' he tould him that he was in throuble over Sthalin(continues on next page)