School: Baile na Cille, Roscrea (roll number 10350)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: F. Bergin
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- (continued from previous page)and their blood was sprinkled on the ground.
Go out into the garden and get a snail, put it on a plate, sprinkle it with flour, place a cabbage leaf over it, after a while take the cabbage leaf away, and you will find inside, your husband's name is traced on the flour. If the snail is inside your husband will be rich, if it is outside your husband will be poor.
If you went into a house where they would be churning you would not be let turn the handle, because the people would say that you would take their butter.
- Collector
- Philip Bergin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pintown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr John Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irby, Co. Tipperary
