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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Ive been looking into Irish Superstition as my great great grandma said not to let the moon shine on your face when asleep, as it will give you bad dreams.
She was from Waterford. Had anyone heard of this one?
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By (user no longer on site)
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They were always very strange down Waterford way   .... Throwing a loaf of bread at the front door New Year's eve to beat hunger out for the year... Father would always do it.. Until they put in a door with a glass panel.. Then my mother bate my father out the front door.. |
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"Ive been looking into Irish Superstition as my great great grandma said not to let the moon shine on your face when asleep, as it will give you bad dreams.
She was from Waterford. Had anyone heard of this one?
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I have. Nan from wexford used to say that one quite a bit |
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"Ive been looking into Irish Superstition as my great great grandma said not to let the moon shine on your face when asleep, as it will give you bad dreams.
She was from Waterford. Had anyone heard of this one?
I have. Nan from wexford used to say that one quite a bit"
Oh right, must've been local Superstition? |
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In tipp where I come from tbe older folks told serious stories about the fae, men getting lost and trapped in fields they'd known all their lives, faerys taking revenge on people who upset a fairy ring or fort and serious whispers often blamed the fae for mishaps and tragedys. |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
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"In tipp where I come from tbe older folks told serious stories about the fae, men getting lost and trapped in fields they'd known all their lives, faerys taking revenge on people who upset a fairy ring or fort and serious whispers often blamed the fae for mishaps and tragedys. "
I have heard that a lot and it's why they won't remove the faery rings in fields or the faery bushes it is meant to being bad luck if you disturb them. |
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"In tipp where I come from tbe older folks told serious stories about the fae, men getting lost and trapped in fields they'd known all their lives, faerys taking revenge on people who upset a fairy ring or fort and serious whispers often blamed the fae for mishaps and tragedys.
I have heard that a lot and it's why they won't remove the faery rings in fields or the faery bushes it is meant to being bad luck if you disturb them."
Ive heard this too in northeast England |
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Towels were put out on the night of 31st Jan to be blessed by Bríd and used for bleeding or childbirth
May wreath hung of the doors to bring good luck for the summer ahead |
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"In tipp where I come from tbe older folks told serious stories about the fae, men getting lost and trapped in fields they'd known all their lives, faerys taking revenge on people who upset a fairy ring or fort and serious whispers often blamed the fae for mishaps and tragedys. "
same in limerick . never take from a fairy fort if anything falls off or out of it leave it back in |
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