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School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)

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Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 009

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    “Long ago there lived an old miser in the village of Lattin...”

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    was very poor. The people believe that the crow was a fairy who was sent to punish him because he refused to give alms to the poor.
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    “It is an old custom here that any person who wanted to bring bad-luck...”

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    It is an old custom here that any person who wanted to bring bad-luck on a person need only put an egg in his or her garden and all the crops would fail around it. But if you shook a sup of Easter water on the garden on May Eve the eggs would do you no harm.
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    “On Mr O'Brien's land there stands an old weather-beaten stone cross...”

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Cunningham
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynilard, Co. Tipperary