School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- 1. It is said when a baby is being baptised, if it cries when the priest is pouring the water on its head, it can never drink and it will always be crying. 2. If a child is born with a crooked finger, it is said that the child has a charm of some kind. 3. It is also said, that when a baby girl is born with a birth-mark on her forehead. That will be a rich and a lucky child. 4. If a person is born at night he will always see ghosts. 5. If a child does not cry when it is being baptized, it will not be a long liver.6. If people go to get a child christened and they see a man with no hair on his head, it is a sign that the child will live as long as its hair stays(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly