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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0590C, Page 12_025

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    8th. Febuary,1938.
    The luckiest day of the week to start work is Friday. Some people who have power from the Devill go out May night, and use their (fo) power in taking their neigh-bours goods for the coming year.But it is said people protects their crops by sticking branches of quick- beam in the middle of the garden. Some people remain up on that night protecting
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr James Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilduff Lower, Co. Clare