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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0977, Page 258

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  1. Lore of Certain Days

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    The people of this district have always recommended Friday as a good day for beginning work as ploughing or setting potatoes. In this locality "Good Friday" has always been selected as a good day for putting down the "early pot" as it is called. From that day out the people work unceasingly until the last potato is covered.
    Besides being a good day for setting potatoes it is always believed in this area to be a good day for sowing oats. If it is sown on this day it is believed that it will yield a crop one hundred fold, and as good prices are given for it the people always try to reap the full benefits of it by bringing it a large surplus.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Norrie Maguire
    Gender
    Male