School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

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   “If a pregnant woman crossed a path then the misfortune to see a hare or meet him worse again her child would be born with a harelip...”

   

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   If a grave is opened by mistake by somebody for a corpse which has no claim to be buried there & if this is found out in time to enable those belonging to the dead to open the proper grave, before closing the other (opened in mistake) a scothán off a furze bush should be placed in the wrong grave before closing it in.

   No relative of corpse should open grave for it but four or six of same clan should take the corpse out of the house for interment. Often a funeral is kept late waiting until the tribe be gathered together as pall-bearers.

   A Mother should not go to her first child's funeral but neither should she be present at the marriage of her first-born.

   A woman pregnant should not go out after dark for the daoine maith are on the watch for the babe & the Mother. Nor should she bring meat in her hand or in her possession at all from a friend or from the market. & everybody knows she should go out same door as she came in

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir