School: Cill Laichtín, An Caisleán Nua
- Location:
- Killaghteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Nioclás Breathnach
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- If a woman is pregnant she rubs her foot in a churchyard the child will have a [?]If a child has the falling sickness and if when she gets the first fall the clothes are taken of her and burned the child will be cured for everHarelip
If a woman be pregnant and a hare to cross her on the road the child will have a harelip. If the woman puts a tear in her clothes when she sees the hare the child will have no harelip.I a woman be pregnant and she kills anything a sign of blood will be on the child.If a pregnant woman comes into a house and that their is food on the table it is only right to give her some. If she didnt get that, the child would be putting out his tongue.
- If a person gets sick someone should go out to pick the first blade of grass and to bring it in an then that would cure the sick person
