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School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

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Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0047

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    Pisreoga
    1. Unlucky for a child to be born at the time of a full moon.
    2. Unlucky to meet a white horse or a red haired woman when starting on a journey.
    3. No look follows any work began on a Friday or ended on a Saturday.
    4. Two members of the same family should not get married in the same year.
    5. When you start on a journey and suddenly you find you have forgotten something, don't turn back: it is unlucky.
    6. If you enter a house and find the bean on tighe churning help: even ever so little an she is safe with the churning. Otherwise it is supposed you go off with the butter in the churn.
    7. If you meet a funeral you will get into
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Deely
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymurry, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thady Silke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    81
    Address
    Ballymurry, Co. Galway