(no title) “Many of the old tales connected with the rural parts of Country Limerick deal with tight-fisted housewives...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “In thatched country farmhouses, a little plant called a "toirpín" is always placed over the door and set in a cow-dung...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “People say that murderers used be placed face-downwards in the coffin so that they could never rise again.” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “Bats rapping at windows portend that someone of the inmates is about to die.” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “When a sow farrows, the offspring are taken away according as they are farrowed. This is to prevent their being smothered or eaten by the sow...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “When a person dies in a house, the clock is stopped until the corpse leaves the house for burial.” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “The water in which a corpse is washed is put under the bed until the corpse is being removed to the church...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “When a two frogs come into a dwelling-house, one if the inmates is supposed to die.” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “One day, a local wit, who had just come down a step in the world was engaged in breaking stones on the roadside for the County Council...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “Much superstition centres round the hair of a human head...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “Some of the more blood-thirsty of the older generation used keep a human hand to effect certain cures...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “On St. Brigid's Night, a black band of ribbon is hung out, and measured...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript
(no title) “The filament round a foal when born is kept and cured and hung in the cowshed...” CBÉS 0512 Thomas Duhig Transcript