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School: Oileán Faoide

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Whiddy Island, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Conchobhar Ó Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 277

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    top of a cup of tea you will get a letter. If it is soft you will get it from a woman and if it is hard you will get it from a man.
    A person should wear a dead person's clothes for three Sundays going to Mass, and they should never cut them up, but give them to a poor person.
    A person should never whistle in the night, because they would call the dead around them.
    You should never rock an emty cradle because the baby would die.
    If you heard a cry or saw a light there would be someone dead.
    If you dreamt of a wedding you would wear of a wake, and if you dreamt of a death you would hear
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maighread Ní Dalaighe
    Gender
    Female