School: Ardee (Mercy Convent) (roll number 8445)
- Location:
- Ardee, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr M. Angel
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14. People say that it is unlucky to leave a cat behind you when you are going to a new house because he brings with him all your good luck
15. It is unlucky to hit anyone with an elder stick
16. If you get seven different pieces of pudding you will have good luck that year
17. If a person boils an egg as hard as a brick that person is very hardhearted
18.It is unlucky to fall in a grave yard
19. If it rains when a person is dead that person is in heaven
20. It is considered unlucky to open an umbrella inside a house nut the more superstitious folk open and close it three times before a statue of St Gerard when they are going out on visits etc, so that it will not rain before they arrive home.
Mary Mc Donnell
Black Ridge
Ardee
- 1. A lone magpie is considered an unlucky omen
2. The old people seldom pass a horse shoe on their travels as they regard it as a very lucky article and it can be seen hanging over the door in some of the old homesteads
3. Long ago no one would be allowed into a house(continues on next page) - Collector
- Dympna Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnaveddoge, Co. Louth
