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School: Stuacán (roll number 14051)

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Muingwore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhiadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 302

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    he would tie a horse nail round him for fear the fairies would bring him away.
    9. When there is a baby in a house and all the people are going out they leave the tongs over the cradle and they say the fairies will not bring the child.
    10. People say it is good luck to have a horse-shoe in his pocket.
    11. It is said that if a person bores a hole in a penny and ties it round his neck it brings him good luck.
    12. If you threw out dirty water you were throwing it on the fairies. Sometimes when they threw it out they said those words so that the fairies would keep out of the way, "chugat a phúca".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Muingwore, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs P. Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Muingwore, Co. Sligo