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  White heather is considered lucky

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  Never cut down a holly tree, or witches will enter your home

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  Buying a broom in May will sweep a friend away

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  Touching or tying a cloth to a tree at a sacred well brings good fortune

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  If the year begins on a Sunday, it foretells many deaths and bad luck

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  Curing whooping cough by tying a dead mouse around the neck or passing a child under a donkey

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  “Hair of the dog”-placing a dog’s hair on a dog bite will heal it

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  Putting bread with quicksilver in water will find a drowned body

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  Stumbling going up stairs foretells a wedding

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  Passing someone on the stairs is unlucky