School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)
- Location:
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 029
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- 1. If you got money on a Monday you would get money all the week.
2. This is a custom when a person is being buried you should loosen the screws of the coffin.
3. If you went into a house you should never stand in the middle of the floor nor sit upon the table.
4. Never visit a sick person on a Friday.
5. You should never kill the house cock.
6. You should always bring in a summer tree leaf on a May morning.
7. You should never leave the cat or any other other animal die inside.
8. If you were going for your honey moon and you met a funeral you should turn back or else you would have no luck.
9. You should never look out through the window at the new moon.
- Collector
- Lizzie Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
