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School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)

Location:
Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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    or corn fields and if you get these eggs in your land it will not yield good crops
    6. If you get a present of fowl or an animal you should give a "luck penny".
    7. If you wash your face with the dew on May morning before the sun rises you will not be sunburnt for the year.
    8. If you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
    9. If you slept for the first time in a strange house and put some
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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
    Mary Kealy
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Michael Kealy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilcolgan, Co. Galway