School: Creatlach (B.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Breathnach
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- I know of a lot of Pishogues such as Putting mountain ash in the corners of your land May-Eve to keep out the bad luck.
Another Pishohue is : putting bad eggs in your neighbours garden so he would have all the bad luck for that year and have the good luck yourself.
The next one is: when you go in to a house where butter is being made some people would not let you go without taking a few twists of the churn for feat you would take the butter.
If there was a child sick in any house and if anyone of the house asked a man with a white horse for a cure, whatever that man would say was the cure.
If you had warts in your hands and if you came to a rock with a hole in it(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballyliddan West, Co. Clare