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School: West Waterford Branch I.N.T.O (roll number n/a)

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Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
James Cashman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 80

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    the butter and that you do not intend to take it away.
    On All Souls Night candles are lighted and left lighting all night. Chairs are also left around the fire for the dead people to sit on.
    It is not lucky to knock down old houses and build new ones in the same place.
    It is not right to open an umbrella inside in a house.
    The evil eye. If a person looks on anything and then it goes wrong the person who looks on it is said to have the evil eye. Only certain people have the evil eye.
    Long ago there was a man who had a young horse. One day a man came
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Cashman
    Gender
    Male