School: Straleel (roll number 16033)
- Location:
- Srath Laoill, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian Ó Breisleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1043, Page 39
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- (a) Before a hare is taken into a house, the tom ban should be pulled off for good luck.(b) A person should not eat the kidneys of a hare because if he does, they will come out on his face.(c) Nothing fired out of a gun except a silver coin will kill a witch hare.(d) If you take off one shoe before you unfasten the other you will have Columchille's curse.(e) The first poitín which comes out of a still should be thrown to the fairies.(f) A wound which you get on Whit Sunday will never heal.(g) Dont lie over and sleep again on Whit Sunday morning or if you do you will never rise.
