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School: Cillíní Díoma (roll number 15071)

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Killeenadeema, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Uinsionn Ó Conáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0177

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  1. Pisreoga (continued)

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    or that person will come back.
    14. The first time you see a new moon you will have no luck if yo see it through (the) glass
    15. Always when going a journey a person should take a grain of salt to keep away the fairies.
    16. If a person breaks a mirror they will have luck for seven years.
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  2. Na Pisreoga a Fuair mé ó M'Athair

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    1. If you met one magpie its bad luck
    2. Driving the cows out of one field into another field on May Morning you are driving away the butter.
    3. Putting a coal under the churn its to keep the butter in the churn.
    4. You should not leave a house in which a churning would be going on without twisting the handle.
    5. If you put the toe of a corpse in your mouth you would never get
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    Irish
    Collector
    Caitlín Ní Chonbhuigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyeighter, Co. Galway