School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- The following are unlucky. -
1. The spilling of salt
2. The number 13.
3. The colour green.
4. To break a looking - glass.
5. To open an umbrella indoors.
6. To see one magpie.
7. To meet a funeral procession.
8. To burn holly.
9. To burn hair which has been clipped from the head of a man, woman or child (the proper thing to do is to collect all the hair clippings and bury them carefully among the stones in a fence or ditch).
10. To begin to sow oats on Saturday or Tuesday.
11. To flit to a new abode on a Saturday.
12. To meet a red-haired woman.
