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School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

Location:
Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Cáinte
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0566, Page 024

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    It is unlucky to cut a lone bush because it brings misfortune to the person (thd) that cuts it, because the good people stand under it at night.
    If you let out a cow after the winter she breathes three times before she eats a bit of grass. Old people say it is to hunt the good people away.
    Never whitewash in May or you will get bad luck. If you (brake)
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Frank Geraghty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    J. Walsh
    Address
    Carrickbeg, Co. Tipperary