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School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)

Location:
Killinaboy, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Donncha Ó Céilleachair

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 295

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Superstitions

It is unlucky to go home from a wake without company. If a person carried a hazel stick at night it would keep away fairies. If you looked at an animal with one eye closed the fairies would take you. If a knife fell it is a sign some man is coming on a visit.


Collected by: - Eamon Ó Níallaín, Roughen.
Told by: - Edward Neylon, Roughan (his father)
(52 years)

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Superstitions

Whoever will be first to take a bucket of water out of the well on May morning it is said to be lucky. If a horse died on a man and if he put a red ribbon on the forehead band of the winkers of the next horse he is to have luck with that horse.

Collected by: - Seán Pelcington, Lemeneigh
Told by: - George Pelcington, Lemeneigh (his father)
(55 years)

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Collector
Seán Pelcington
Gender
male
Address
Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
Informant
George Pelcington
Relation
parent
Gender
male
Age
52
Address
Leamaneh North, Co. Clare
Language
English

Superstitions

It is not lucky for a woman with a newly born baby to go into a house until she is churched. If a tongs is left across the cradle in which a baby is sleeping nothing will happen the baby.


Collected by: - Mícheál Ó Cuillináin, Rinamona.
Told by: - Michael O’Donoghue, Rinnamona.
(89 years)

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