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1. Local Superstitions

   

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   If a stange woman comes to live in anybody's house and dies there all the animals start to die about it.
   If the banshee is heard crying near a house somebody is going to die in that house.
   On Hallow-eve night the fairies come out and mothers used to rub oatmeal on their childrens heads to keep the fairies from taking them away.
   If any girls gives her boy hankies for a present before that year is out they shall be parted.
   If a maiden eats an apple before the looking glass on Halloween night she will see her husband to be looking over her shoulder.
   If a knife falls there is a stranger to the house. If two spoons are in the same cup there is going to be a wedding.
   If a Holy Picture falls there is going to be a death.
   If a chimney goes afire there will be a death in that house.
   If a cock crows at 12 o'clock it is very unlucky.
   If a woman whistled in anybodys house she would never be let into that house again because the people thought a whistling woman was a whistling devil.

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