School: Crois-Bhóthar

Location:
Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Bhreitheamhan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0281

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    22. If a grave runs along the side of a wall, the clay when the grave is opened is to be put on the land-hand side from the foot.
    23. When a "dead" bell is heard in the left ear, a man is dead, if in the right, a woman.
    24. If a weasel runs across the road before a person, he should turn home. But if he comes out of his burrow and runs on in the direction you are going, you will have good luck.
    25. A person never goes to a fair on the 1st Monday of the New Year.
    26. If a person meets a ghost whom he believes to be ones of his own
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Sheachnasaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonlegee, Co. Galway