School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 469
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- If you leave your boots on the table there will be a fight in that house.
If you let a knife fall and pick it up yourself it is a disappointment, or if you let it fall and does not pick it up it is a stranger coming to that house.
If you let a fork fall it is a woman to the house, and if you let a spoon fall it is a letter to the house, and if you let a scissors fall it is priest to the house.
If you see a mag-pie, it brings you bad luck.
There is a rhyme about the mag-pies as follows-
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
And seven for a secret that will never be told.
- Collector
- Antoine Ó hÉidhín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
