Scoil: Cloonmorris (uimhir rolla 12496)

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1. Old Superstitions (ar lean)

   

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   godfather carried him out and his godmother carried him in. If they did not do it they believed it would die. When a child was being brought out a pinch of salt was placed in its mouth so that the fairies could not take it.

   It was unlucky to have a sick person's bed opposite the bedroom door. If a cock chicken was sold the people believed that they would not have another to sell for five years as they never did this.

   So that a bride would be lucky, she wore "something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue" and her mother or someone else threw an old boot after her.

   A whistling woman and a crowing hen were never kept at any house because they believed that a whistling woman and a crowing hen brings a man wealth but God knows when.

   At a wake the people believed it was unluck to taste any kind of food. They also believed it unlucky to let a person die on a feather bed or to churn inside and a person dead in the house.

   It was unlucky to put out "sweepings" on

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Teresa Beirne

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Eadarchluain, Co. an Longfoirt

   Faisnéiseoir

   Patrick Beirne

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

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   Fireann

   Aois

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   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Eadarchluain, Co. an Longfoirt