School: Drom Mór (C.), Beantraí (roll number 13096)

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1. Local Beliefs (continued)

   

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   thrown down and left lying until the corpse is removed from the house.
   14. When a corpse is carried out point an iron at the top of the house round about to drive out the spirit.
   15. It is very unlucky to wear anything new at a funeral. "Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.
   16. To dream of cabbage is a sign of death.
   17. A person meeting a funeral should always turn back and walk at least three steps with the funeral.
   18. It is very desirable that four of the same family name as the deceased should carry the corpse. (e. g. O'Reillys should carry an O'Reilly)
   19. Never wipe boots in a graveyard.
   20. Snuff left over after a wake is a cure for a headache.
   21. It is unlucky to marry in harvest always poor, always gathering, never having anything.
   22. It is unlucky to marry on Saturday. "Saturday's fittin' is short sittin'".
   23. It is very unlucky to meet on wedding day.
   24. Some mothers cut the sign of the Cross with tongs held in left hand, three times over the head, and three times at the feet of the girl going out to be married.
   25. Two spoons given in cup signify an invitation to a wedding.
   26. If a person fall of a seat he won't be married that year.
   27. If a girl's apron strings become loose some one is getting inside of her.
   28. If a black dog without a white hair goes into a dairy no butter will be got from the milk.
   29. Butter is taken by means of a "dead hand". In every case it is a woman who uses the hand, which she has cut off a corpse in the graveyard. Before sunrise she milks her neighbour's cows.

   

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Shuilleabháin

   Gender

   Female