Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
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- If you put out a piece of cloth on May Eve, and take the exact measure of it putting it out; well in the morning if the cloth is the same length or longer you'll get a long life ; and if it's shorter you'll get a short life.
- Crossing the Shovels on Grave There was a person wan and he was a great friend of St. Patrick's. He died anyway and St. Patrick was to bury him but there was some other seel' or something trying to get him. So St. Patrick said when he'd have the grave made to cross the shovels on the grave and to leave them there. He did; and when this crowd came they saw the it they all ran with their lives. And ever since the shovels are crossed on the Grave.
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