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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)

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Drangan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 077

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    If a person gets the blood of a true Cahill and puts it on with the whisker of a black cat it will cure St Anthony's fire.
    If salt is spilt, the person who spilt the salt will have bad luck for seven years.
    One magpie for sorrow, two for joy, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for wealth all untold.
    A woman in the parish of Mullinahone
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Hanly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ballycullin, Co. Tipperary