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School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)

Location:
Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 199

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    It is a sign of bad luck to some people and a sign of good luck to others to meet a weasel.
    If it were possible to kill a weasel and to make a purse out of his skin and to put money in the purse, there would be money in it always.
    Animals love the taste of blood a weasel does not eat the fleshof his prey but he sucks its blood It is said that if a pig got the taste of blood, he would kill a cow.
    When the people used to see the cuckoo on the top of a bare tree they would see their animals at the fair because they look it
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tommie Curneen
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Ginty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo