School: Gurrane (B.) (roll number 14839)
- Location:
- Clondrohid, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 193
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- 1. Give a good start to the person who has them and they will go. It is not easy to do this if the person who has them suspects what you are going to do.
2. Take a spoon of sugar.
3. Nine sups of water without breathing.
4. Drink a cup of water with your finger in your ears.
5. Think of where you were at the consecration the previous Sunday and they will go.
6. Drink nine sups of water out of a cup from the wrong side of the handle.
- Drink a cup of water with a pinch of soda in it.
- The old people say that singing in your ears means that a poor soul in purgatory is reminding you that he needs your prayers and they say that if you pray the singing will go. The old people always say that when that singing is heard we should pray for the poor soul who has called us.
