School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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“If there are sven sons, or seven daughters, born one after another, the seventh is supposed to have the cure of the running worm.”
If there are seven sons, or seven daughters, born one after another. The seventh is supposed to have the cure of the running worm.
In order to have this cure, when the child is born a worm must be put into its hand, and left there until it dies. - When a child is being baptised, if there is too much salt put in the water, he will be a drunkard all his life.On Hallow-Eve when a group of people are seated at the fire, the man of the house gets two grains of wheat, and he names a boy, and girl in the group, and names one grain of the wheat as the(continues on next page)
