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School: Nobber (C.) (roll number 5807)

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Nobber, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Chaoindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 290

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    1. If you let anything fall and lift it - it is a sign of a disappointment.
    2. Wear your clothes inside out is a sign of good luck
    3. Red on the candle you are getting a letter
    4. Sparks leaving the fire without anybody touching it is a sign of money.
    5. You should never sell a horn to buy a hoof
    6. One white foot buy him,
    Two white feet try him
    Three white feet give him to your wife (so quiet)
    Four white feet keep him all your life
    (Said about a horse)
    7. A mole above the breath lucky
    A mole below the breath unlucky
    8. He was dreeping fond of her like wet straw
    9 When looking for a thing what did you eat last
    10 Sneeze on Monday sneeze for danger
    Sneeze on Tuesday you'll kiss a stranger
    Sneeze on Wednesday you'll get a letter
    Sneeze on Thursday something better
    Sneeze on Friday for sorrow
    Sneeze on Saturday you'll see your true lover to-morrow.
    11. Power of the sun will make you sneeze.
    12. Better suffer a bite that waken a thousand
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English