School: Lettercran (roll number 12049)
- Location:
- Lettercran, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Peadar S. Ó Duibhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)15. Monday for health
Tuesday for wealth
Wednesday the best day of all
Thursday for loses
Friday for crosses
Saturday is no day at all.
16. If a wedding ring is a misfit it should not be returned for they say the marriage of those will never take place.
- 1. Two ends of a rainbow in the same town-land, is the sign of a death in that town-land.
2. If a cricket to a house where no crickets live it is a sign of a death in that house.
3. If a side of a grave falls in, another death in that family before a year.
4. If a corpse is not stiff when coffined another death in that family before a year.
5. Two straws in the form of a cross on the door-step is a death in that house.
6. To see a person’s raith [sic.] is a sign that that person will die before a year.
