School: Moate (2) (roll number 10884)

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1. Incidential Remarks Relative to Folklore

   

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   (1) If a person kills a swallow their cow will milk blood. - Johnny Galvin, Oliver Plunkett Tce, Moate. (2) It is not lucky to hunt a goat out of a field where there are cattle, because a goat is lucky- as above (3) If you see one magpie it is unlucky, if you see two it is lucky- Billie Flynn, Athlone Road Moate (4) Referring to magpies:- (A) One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a wedding, Four for a boy. Patrick Mac Cormack, Ballyecassim. Moate. (heard at home.) (B) 0ne for sorrow, Two for joy, Three to get married, Four to die, Five for silver Six for gold, Seven for a secret That is never to be told. Joe Flynn, The Moat, Moate. (5) If you rob a magpies' nest with young, they will come the next year and take your chickens. Willie Delaney, Clara Road, Moate. (6) If you kill a magpie you will have bad luck. (7) If two people meet on the the stairs it is unlucky. (8) If when you have your tea drank, you take a tea leaf and put it on the back of your hand. Then with the other hand - closed fist, -you pound it (the tea leaf) and if the leaf sticks to the fist, while you say, with each pound, Monday, Tuesday etc, if at Monday it sticks

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Liam P. Mac Coiligh

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Johnny Galvin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moate, Co. Westmeath

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   4) Referring to magpies:-
   (A) One for sorrow,
   Two for joy,
   Three for a wedding,
   Four for a boy.
   Patrick Mac Cormack,
   Ballyecassim.
   Moate. (heard at home.)
   (B) 0ne for sorrow,
   Two for joy,
   Three to get married,
   Four to die,
   Five for silver
   Six for gold,
   Seven for a secret
   That is never to be told.

   

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   5) If you rob a magpies' nest with young, they will come the next year and take your chickens.

   

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4. Incidental Remarks Relative to Folklore

   

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   (6) If you kill a magpie you will have bad luck.

   

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5. Incidental Remarks Relative to Folklore

   

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   (7) If two people meet on the the stairs it is unlucky.

   

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   (8) If when you have your tea drank, you take a tea leaf and put it on the back of your hand. Then with the other hand - closed fist, -you pound it (the tea leaf) and if the leaf sticks to the fist, while you say, with each pound, Monday, Tuesday etc, if at Monday it sticks

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