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 Catalogue of Brand Mafo'ial,

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Augury of luck in love from burning named nuts {F.L. R. iv. loi)

Ditto, from " building the house " of 24 holly-twigs, named and tied in pairs, set round live coal ; ob- serve which catches fire first.

Ditto, from counting thorns in holly-leaf, grains in head of corn, pebbles in chance handful.

Husband's name discovered from first name, or voice, overheard while holding g grains of oats in the mouth

Augury of fate from shape of

melted lead dropt through

key-loop into water - Ditto, from touching plates

containing coin, etc., hidden

in cake or colcannon. To procure dreams of the destined lover :

Take an egg from the nest in a three-cornered hand- kerchief, roast, eat shell and all, never touching with hand -

Boil a hen's first egg hard, eat in three bites with- out salt

Make cakes of egg, meal, and salt, eat

Steal a salt herring and cat it raw - - - -

Eat a herring, bones and all ; look in the glass at midnight

Put the first bit, middle bit, and last bit of supper under the pillow -

Put a distaff under a man's pillow - ■ - -

Queen's County

Co. Cork, mon.

Co. Roscom-

Leitrim. Queen's Co.

Leitrim, Roscommon.

Connaught.

Ibid.

Leitrim.

Con naught.

Mayo.

Connaught.

Ibid.