School: Carlanstown (roll number 884)
- Location:
- Carlanstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Gérbheannaigh
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- It is unlucky to see one magpie anyplace.
It is unlucky to meet a red haird woman the first thing in the morning.
A hare to cross your path the thing when you are going on a journey is unlucky.
To break a mirror means seven yeas bad luck
If you find a pin on the road and you don't pick it up you want a pin before you die.
If you go into a graveyard and fall in it you will be in it again twelve months.
If you count forty white horses you will get a shake hands
If you hit another with an elder rod you will never grow any bigger.
If you find a tip of a boot you will have good luck
To spill salt is very bad luck.If you find a horse shoe and hand it up in a bush you will have good luckIf you are going to a place and a black cat to run in front of you, you will have good luck.
