School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Choluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 149
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- 168 If you met a robin, that would be the sign that someone belonging to you was going to die.
169 If you got a horseshoe on the road you should spit on it and throw it over your shoulder.
170 If you got a sod of turn on the road and picked it up and brought it home, you would be lucky.
171 If you saw a light and nothing to cause it, it would be a sign that someone belonging to you was going to die.
172 If you put your shoe on the table, you would be the first to die in the house.
173 If you heard a cricket on Christmas Day, you would be lucky for the rest of the year.
174 If the father of the house brought a bucket of water from a well on Christmas morning, he would being good luck to the children
- Collector
- Neillí Ní Shúilliobháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknaboola, Co. Kerry
