School: Na Creaga

Location:
Creggs, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó Breandáin
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  1. Superstitions
    The old people would always bring in the Summer on a May morning. They would bring in branches of te trees and stick them in the rafters, by doing that they would have good luck for that year.
    They never allowed a coal to be taken out on a May day, because the house would be surely burned that year.
    If a red-headed woman came into a house on a May and struck a grass on the churn the poeple in that house would have no butter the whole year. The people of long ago used to make crosses out of straw on a November's Night and stick them in the rafters for good luck for the year. If you were going on a journey and a magpie
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      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    3. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. accessories (~307)
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