School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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- Local Superstitions
1. To meet a single nag on the road is a sign of bad luck to follow.
2. To spill salt is an unlucky omen. The bad luck may be kept off by throwing a pinch of the salt spilled over the right shoulder.
3. To meet a red-haired woman is an evil omen.
4. A coal should not be let out of the house on May morning (Men working in the fields take a half-kindled sod and leave it under a wall, in readiness for kindling their pipes.
5. A hare crossing the road before a person is an evil omen.
6. If a man leaves the house with a pipe in his mouth while a churning is in progress he takes the butter with him, and no more will(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eddie Wyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrow, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Michael Brennan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Garrow, Co. Roscommon
