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School: Dún Beag (C.)

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Doonbeg, Co. Clare
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Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 283

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    a marriage the pair would have no luck.
    19. Some people tie an old shoe to the car so that they would have luck.
    20. It is very unlucky to fall in a graveyard.
    21. If you do anything New Years morning you will do it for the hole year.
    22. When you are coming home from a funeral it is not right to buy anything or to visit the sick
    23. Going out in the night with your horse and cart
    24. Waiting until Friday to sow the potatoes and waiting until Friday to train a horse.
    25. When starting business to wait until Friday
    26. Not to clean cabins new years morning
    27. Old women go up to the strand with a white cloth around their heads
    28. Picking bairnics on Good Friday
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Hayes
    Gender
    Female