School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)
- Location:
- Cloongee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 401
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- When a person is going on a journey someone of the house throws the tongs after him so that he will have luck. If the first person he meets is a woman it is said that he will have bad luck but it he meets a man he will have good luck. If some people meet a woman first they would turn back home. When a person hears the cuckoo for the first time whichever direction he is looking he will go a long distance that way before long. It a person is looking at the clay when he hears the cuckoo for the first time it is said that he will die before the year is out.Magpies
There is a rhyme about the Magpies that is One for sorrow, Two for joy, three for a letter, four to meet a boy, five for silver, six for gold, and seven for a secret never to be told.
