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School: Crois-Bhóthar

Location:
Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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    1. After the 'bone' fire on St. John's night, people take a coal from the fire and cast it into their potato field.
    2. One should leave a house by the same door as you enter.
    3. It is not right to carry a spade or a shovel on your shoulder indoors.
    4. A person who sells at a fair hopes for luck the "lucks penny" he gets.
    5. A person who loses money on New year dat will be losing money all the year.
    6. A person who breaks a mirror has 7 years of bad luck.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Ó Seachnasaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tonlegee, Co. Galway