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School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)

Location:
Ballymartle, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Patrick Kelleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 055

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    12. If you had any thing to do with a corpse you should wash your hands in salt and water.
    13. It is unlucky to meet a hare or a single magpie or a foxy girl on going on a journey fasting.
    14. It is unlucky to hear the cuckoo in the left ear and it is lucky to hear her in the right ear.
    15. It is unlucky to start sowing your crops on a friday or it is unlucky to cut your hair or to make a grave without reddening it the day before
    16. It is unlucky to take a plant out of a graveyard or without saying a prayer or without wiping your boots.
    17. It is unlucky to thow a stick into the garden on bonfire's night.
    18. It is unlucky to fight over water.
    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
    Margaret Scannell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Piercetown, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Thomas Scannell
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Piercetown, Co. Cork