School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15457)
- Location:
- Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSiúr M. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0637, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)hand and if you got a bag of stones and left them outside the window; the warts would leave you, if someone took the bag.
If you eat three leaves of blessed palm, you would not get sick for the year.
If you drank pardry water, you would never get a sore throat.
If you pitched herbs in a wood and boiled them for a year stirring them every night and every day, your daughter would be the most beautiful and smartest girl in the world.
If you counted your warts you would get another.
If you brought a peacock’s feather into the house it is very unlucky.
If a Bantom laid an egg on Easter morning, it would keep very bad luck away(continues on next page)
