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School: An Cillín, Minane Bridge (roll number 11818)

Location:
Ballinvarrig, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs Canty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 053

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    1. Throw cake against door (on New Year's Eve) to keep out hunger for year
    2. Rub dew on face on May Morning to keep away toothache.
    3. Keep a piece of Christmas log to light fire on following Christmas
    4. If you walk into a dairy give the churn three turns before you go out again, otherwise butter would not make
    5. Call on someone, not present to watch the pudding's so that they would'nt burst
    6. Do not dig a grave on Monday
    7. Throw corn against the wind (to be flaitheamhail) when setting it
    8. If you rubbed an eas luachair to your tongue you could put a red poker against tongue, 'twouldnt burn.
    9. A child should cry three times on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday before getting food.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English