School: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 16396)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealbháin
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- (continued from previous page)eggs for hatching
Burnt saile willow & cross marked on [?] egg. Pinch of salt (tiny) put in milk given away, so that charm could affect milk. No (seed) lent or milk given May eve. Cattle should be well on May day. May fall into break legs etc. May unlucky month
- Signs:- Brown clayey patches on ch = fingers. [?] Hens crowing, [?] crowing late in evening. Crickets [?] loudly. Birds tapping at window. [?] Butterflies around house in winter Clocks stopped in house time of death. Corpse facing to east. No grave opened on Monday. [?] shouldn't be buried in a new grave[?] If corpse doesnt stiffen for a long[?] time after death, more deaths ensue quickly in family. Dead [?] around house (coming for dead person) Bean[?] sidhe, heard sometimes laughing
