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Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

Date
1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0140

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0140

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  1. Cac an Diabhail (continued)

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  2. Beliefs and Cumstoms

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    Cuckoo heard for 1st time in right ear, good luck.
    Cuckoo heard for 1st time in left ear, bad luck.
    When you hear the cuach lift up your right foot and you'll find a hair on the sole of your foot - the colour of wh. will indicate the colour of the hair of your husband or wife. "I never liked the leg but I got the hair" old men declare.
    Spider crawling on your hat. You'll get a new hat, coat, new coat etc.
    Cock crowing at night terrify half the parish.
    If cock enters the house and crows during the day avert the disaster by addressing him: 'Good news, Cock!"
    Red haired woman - turn back or desist from the job.
    It is wrong to kill any animal after dark.
    It can be one of your nearest and dearest departed.
    Pater and 3 Aves recited after family Rosary for all the poor souls in Purgatory esp those nearest and dearest to us. He or she who recites the last decade f....les them: "Thanks be to God, Glory be to the F, S and HG - revival from penal days
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