School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- 12. If you light the Christmas Candle before Christmas Night you will have bad luck.
13. In changing from one house to another it is not lucky to bring a cat or a pig.
14. If on November night you go round the stack of oats three times pull a wisp each time put the three wisps in your mouth and come to the door you will hear the people inside talking of the one to whom you will be married
15 It is not right to throw salt away if you do you will not live long.
16. It is right to put salt or water in new milk before you give it to any one.
17. If you wash a vessel in which there was milk, you should throw the water on the land, as if it is thrown into the river, it will take the cream off the milk.
18. When you are making a churning(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ara, Co. Mayo
