School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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- (continued from previous page)10) If you keep a halfpenny in your purse you will always have money.11) If you hear the bean-sidhe crying you can be sure that somebody is going to die. 12) If a coal falls from the fire a visitor is coming to you.
- 20/6/'381) The old people believe that if a person had bad luck he could banish it by taking three eggs and leaving them in the field of some other body. 2) They say that if you want to get butter you can take it by getting a dead hand and it will get the butter of all the neighbours' milk.3) If a man is going to a fair with stock and to meet a girl with red hair he should turn back because he would have no luck that day.4) If a man went into a house to light his pipe and the owner churning he would not let him out until he had finished churning.5) If a person had a hen crowing that person would have bad luck until he would take that hen and leave her at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Caomhánaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballinamore Bridge, Co. Galway
