School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 059
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Superstitions (continued)
“When a person cuts his hair he should not burn it or he will have to pick it out of the fire on the last day.”
(continued from previous page)does so. It is said that if one piece of delph is broken in a house, that three pieces will be broken after that.
It is very unlucky to throw out water at night because one night a man was throwing out a basin of water, when his dead brother appeared, and told him, he was throwing the water on his soul, that was not at rest. If a person lets a spoon fall, he will have a girl visitor and if he lets a knife fall, he will have a man visitor. If a swan flies over a house it is a sign that somebody will die in that house.
- Collector
- Aine O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mainistir na Búille, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Mrs B. Carney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Díseart Nuan, Co. Ros Comáin