School: Munlough
- Location:
- Mionlach Thuaidh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: D. Brady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)22. If you sit down on a seat and it falls you will not be married that year.
23. If a frog hops into a dwelling house it is the sign of a death.
24. If a large number of rats gather round the place it is a sign of a death.
25. When the crane goes up to the mountain it is the sign of good weather and vice versa.
26. When swallows fly high it is a sign of good weather.
27. If a knife falls of its own accord a man will come in.
28. If a spoon falls a woman will come in.
29. If a coal falls on the hearth, a stranger will come in, and if it is a smoky coal, he will be smoking a pipe.
30. If you put on any of your clothes inside out when you are going on a journey it is the sign of a disappointment
31. If the dish-cloth falls it is the sign of a stranger coming.
32. It is unlucky to put your left foot into your right shoe.
33. When you are going on a journey and see one mag-pie, it is a disappointent(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Peter Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowmore, Co. an Chabháin
