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   shoe to the car in which the married people is in. It is right to break the wedding cake on the brides head. Straw boys goes round to the houses looking for drink. It is said that the bride should wear something old something new something borrowed and something blue.

   Teller: Mrs. Power
   Flaskagh
   Dunmore

   Writer: Bridie Power
   Same Place

   

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   Folklore 15-7-'38 What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood The trunk of a tree. As round as an apple as plump as a cup and all in Ireland could'nt put it up. The sun shining in a well. What always walks with its head down. A nail in your boot.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Shally

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Flaskagh More, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Shally

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Flaskagh More, Co. Galway