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School: Lios Gúl, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 4230)

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Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 055

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    “The nicest game I play is "All the birds in the air". ...”

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    was twenty. When she has them all given out she says to the other girl. "All the birds in the air all the fishes in the sea cannot find out a robin for me." Then the other girl names some girl and sometimes she might be right. Then they keep calling like that until all the girls are out but the last. Then while one girl is hunting the other girl gives the last girl three names of birds. The other girl tries to name them. The two girls who were calling go away and make out three places which they call Hell, Heaven and Purgatory. Then all the other girls go over to the two who were calling. The girls go into any of these three places. Then the girl names the three places and then two different girls call them.
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    To meet a red haired in the morning is a sign of bad luck. To find a horse shoe on the road and to spit on it and to throw it in over the ditch the person will have luck. If a person meets a magpie on the road in the morning is a sign of good luck; to meet two is a sign of bad luck; to meet three is a sign of a wedding; to meet four is a sign of joy; to meet five is a sign of a funeral; to meet six is a sign to die; to meet seven is a sign of a birth.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Sarsfield
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mr John Sarsfield
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Riesk, Co. Cork