School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)tell you by looking at the palm of your hand what had and what was to happen.
If you had a mole on your chin or neck it is a sign of good luck.
If you were talking about a person and he to come into your house some would say "Speak of the devil and he is sure to appear", and others say "Speak of Angels and they appear".
It is said that if there is a curse on a house the people in it never do well.
There is said to be a curse on anybody who would laugh at anything bad.
If going a journey or on business it is thought to be unlucky to meet a red haired woman.
If you go to a mill three times on the evening of Halloween, and go up to the top of the mill and throw down a ball of wool, and ask who caught it underneath and who ever caught it would be the person you would marry.
- Collector
- Gertie Bohan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Leitrim
