School: Ardee (De la Salle) (roll number 2094)

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   “A person who enters a house in which churning is going on must take a hand at churning...”

   

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   56 Contd. Pulling the fingers one by one and counting the cracks tells you the number of children you shall have. Rubbing white milky juice of "Deveil's meal" (Sunspurge) on warts cures them. When stung by a nettle, rub the stung part with a dock-leaf and say "Capog, capog, in and out Take the sting of the nettle out". When butter does not come as a result of churning it is supposed to have been taken by fairies and salt was shaken round the churn to take them away. Near Carraroe, Co Galway, a hot coal is placed under the churn before churning commences. There is a kind of beetle which cocks it talk and when you see one you should kill him before he lifts the tail - otherwise you shall have bad luck. It is believed that when the Jews were pursuing

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