School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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“The touch of a dead man's hand is said to remove a birthmark.”
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26.5 38.The touch of a dead man's hand is said to remove a birthmark is said to remove a birthmark.To rub the afterbirth of the child to the birthmark is also said to take it away.
The old people say it is not right to interfere with a birthmark,that it is a lucky thing to be born in a child.They also say that a hares lip in a child is caused by a hare crossing the path of a woman in child.
It is not right for a woman in child to make jam especially currant or blackberry jam.A woman in child to touch a gooseberry is said to be the cause of a birthmark the shape of a gooseberry on the child's head.Mrs J .S - Quin Co. Clare ,says she was 'making pigs puddings carrying Madge who had a very large birthmark on her face .She blames the making of the puddings for the birthmark to this day.
Tole by Mrs Pat Kelly ,Quin. Co.Clare.
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Quin, Co. Clare