School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)

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   17. When a tooth falls out bless yourself with it and throw it over your head and another will grow.
   18. Rosary is recited by the fairies every Sat. night in Gale churchyard.
   19. If you leave a sign of milk in the bucket when going to the well for a bucket of water your cows will have poor milk for the rest of the year (S O'Sullivan Newtown).
   20. You must take a "dreas" of the churn if you enter a house where a churn is being made.
   21. Putting two lights (eg. candle + lamp) in the same position (e.g a window) is unlucky.
   22. To kill moths is unlucky. (P. Boyle)
   23. Don't count cows at a funeral.
   24. Don't show children scissors while they are young.
   25. Someone will die in the neighbourhood if cocks crow at night (B Donovan).
   26. Keep a bucket of fresh water in the house night.
   27. The tongs should be kept on the right hand side of the hearth at night.
   28. Don't heel a stick a night.
   29. In Ballylongford on Good Friday every house has to go down to share some time on the strand.
   30. Cover mirrors in the wake-room.
   31. Let relatives write on paper on door.
   32. Bringing in coffin in wake-house bring it in head first as that'll turn the next death away. This is the cause of bickering of relatives as some turn feet in to keep the death in house.
   33. Longest way when taking corpse to church.
   34. You'll get gold under a white-thorn tree in the middle of a field.
   35. Count 9 stars 9 nights and you'll get a present.
   35. If you were crossing fields at night don't cross the first ditch till you hear the first cock-crows.
   36. Happy is the corpse the rain falls on.

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