School: Curry (C.) (roll number 12067)
- Location:
- Curry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chaomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0536
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- The blood of a black cat is a cure for wildfire if it is rubbed on it.
The second door should not be opened while a dead person is in the house, even for the purpose of taking out the body.
If the water - in which the body of a dead person was washed - is thrown out before the body is removed from the house somebody else in the house will die soon.
If a calf dies throw the bones into a neighbours field and the ill-luck will go to the neighbour.
It is right to go out the same door you came in.
If a fisherman when going to fish met a woman, red, black or fair-haired, he would return home again.
If part of a cats ear was cut off - the cat having no white spot - and the blood rubbed on the outside of a wildfire it is said that it would cure it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Catherine Brett
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micky Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Paddy Johny
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Paddy Maguire
- Gender
- Male
