School: Blackrock (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Blackrock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr. M. Baptist
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 276
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- If your nose bleeds or if a fly lights on your hand it is the sign of thunder.
If you kill a spider it is the sign of rain
Red in the morning, sailors' warning, red in the night, sailors' delight.
A ring round the moon is the sign of a storm.
If there is a rainbow and you put a cross on the road there will be good weather.
If when you hear the cuckoo and there is a grey hair on your shoe you will live till your grey.
Smoke coming up straight from a chimney or a crow in the chimney pot brings good weather.
Where the rainbow ends there
