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Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
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S. Stonndúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 047

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  2. Local Superstition

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    Mrs Johnnie Clarke reads the cards and Mary Susan Donohoe reads the cups. None of them ever read anything which came true. It is said it is unlucky to meet a magpie on the road early in the morning. the following are two rhymes heard locally about meeting magpies.
    "One for sorrow
    Two for mirth
    Three for marriage
    And four for a birth
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