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School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín

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Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Áine Ní Fhaoláin
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    2. If a picture falls off the wall in the night when all in the house are in bed, it is said that a member of the family will die soon.
    3. It is said that anyone who does not burn Blessed Turf on Easter Sunday will not have a fire for the year.
    4. If a cock started to crow in side in the house it is a sign of a death.
    5. Some people say that if you would put an umbrella over your head in side in a house you would not grow any bigger.
    6. When a cat is washing himself on the floor who ever he looks at the first, that person would be the first in the family to die.
    7. It is said that if a dead man's hand was put on a birth mark it would be cured.
    8. If you see a straw hanging on a hen's leg it is a sign some body is going to die.
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