School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 149
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- To find a penny on the road is the sign of good luck.
You should never return fresh meat.
If you lend sheets or any clothes to lay out a dead person, they should be taken out the same door, they were taken in.
Holy water should be sprinkled on a dead person's clothes and they then given to some poor person, who should wear them for three successive Sundays at mass after getting them.
You should not sleep out on May day.
The shovel and spade should be crossed over the grave when the grave is finished.
The bottle that the holy water was in should be left on the grave.
Giving and taking is a very bad thing, when your passing the church, you'll see a white thing.
The after-birth of the cow should be hung on the rafters of the cow-house.
If frogs come into the house it is a sigh of a death in the family.
Little birds picking at the window is a sign of a death in the family.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Stack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Catherine Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockahorrea East, Co. Cork
