School: Creatlach (B.)

Location:
Cratloe, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Seán Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 051

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  1. I know of a lot of Pishogues such as Putting mountain ash in the corners of your land May-Eve to keep out the bad luck.
    Another Pishohue is : putting bad eggs in your neighbours garden so he would have all the bad luck for that year and have the good luck yourself.
    The next one is: when you go in to a house where butter is being made some people would not let you go without taking a few twists of the churn for feat you would take the butter.
    If there was a child sick in any house and if anyone of the house asked a man with a white horse for a cure, whatever that man would say was the cure.
    If you had warts in your hands and if you came to a rock with a hole in it
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Healy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballyliddan West, Co. Clare