School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- (continued from previous page)you should take a pinch of salt and throw one half on the churning and the other half into the fire.
19. Put a coal under the churn and the fairies cannot bring the butter
20. If there is a person sick in the house if you brought out a coal the fairies would bring the sick person and leave another in his place.
21.If if you are going to the fair and you turn your overcoat inside out by mistake, you will have good luck.
22. If a man turns his waistcoat inside out he will have bad luck.
23. It is not right to have three people with the same names living in one house, or one of them will die.
24. If the priest is wanted to anoint a sick person it is a man who should go if a woman goes the person is sure to die.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ara, Co. Mayo
