School: Lios Gúl, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 4230)
- Location:
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 057
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- It is unlucky to call three persons the same name in the same house. On one occasion when a baby was given the name of Mathew. There were two others of the name in the house and after a week the baby died.
People attach great superstition to magpies and there is a rhyme composed about it. If a person sees one magpie it is a sign of bad luck.
If one breaks a looking glass seven years of ill luck follows.
If a knife falls it is a sign of a visitor coming
It is also thought unlucky to open a grave on a Monday and when it is needed the grave is half opened on Sunday, also the shovels and pickaxe used in digging a grave are paced in the form of a cross over it to prevent spirits from entering it.
The people hang up a horse shoe as a sign of good luck.
A person is very lucky if he put on his coat inside out in the morning.
Some people think it is very unlucky to bring a branch of hawthorn blossom into a house and it is never brought home. It is unlucky to open an umbrella in a house.
- Collector
- Thomas O Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr John C. O' Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
