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School: Conahy (roll number 14364)

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Connahy, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Ciarán Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 456

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    a bad eye called a droch shúil or suil malluigre and if he cast his bad eye on a person or animal that person or animal would fade away and die
    47 It is sign of good luck for a frog to come into a dwelling house.
    48 When eating a chicken or other bird if any married person gets the wish bone and hang it behind the kitchen door, the eligiable unmarried person while comes in the door is the person whom the ownery of the wish bone will marry.
    49 There is an old superstition that the last person burried in a graveyard gets the job of drawing water for all the others in it
    50 If an unmmarried girl goes on November night at 12 o'clock and looks into a well she sees the reflection of the man she is to marry
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