School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)Child from growing.9/ Not right to try to count the nails in your shoe - supposed to be counting the nails in your coffin - a serious sickness which maybe fatal for you within a short space of time. 10/ If the wind blows open the door, it is not right to say come in. Believed to be opened by an evil spirit.11/ If a person comes into a house where churning is going on, he or she must take the churn dash in the hand and gives a few dashes. This is done to prevent the butter been brought away by an evil spirit - In dread of the “Evil Eye”12/ Some people can never get(continues on next page)
