School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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- (continued from previous page)have it as a custom, if they owe a spite to anybody to hide eggs in his hay. It often happens that the man it is done to meets with some great misfortune. It is fresh eggs that are hid and if the man finds them in his hay the day after, and if he put them down to boil they would never boil one bit, but would be just the same as stones. This story is quite true, as my Aunty told me. She knows people in the Co. Limerick it has been done to.
- You should never strike anybody with an alder rod.
A whistling woman or a crowing hen is unlucky in a house.
Never go the short-cut with a corpse to the graveyard.(continues on next page)