School: An Craoslach (roll number 10062)
- Location:
- Creeslough, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: U. Ní Pháirce
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- An animal or person born on Whit Sunday will either kill or be killed.
It is unlucky to break a mirror- there will be bad luck in the house for seven years.
To spill salt- but if a pinch is lifted and thrown over the left shoulder the bad luck is diverted.
To meet a red haired woman on the bare feet or to meet a white horse first thing in the morning- bad luck will follow that day.
To look into a mirror after night-fall
If a magpie chirps in the path before you as you set out on a journey.
To hear a cock crow after twelve o'clock at night is a sign of death before day break, but if the cock is killed nothing else will die.
If a robin comes hopping about the home, it is a sign that something bad is going to happen in that house
It is unlucky to bring hawthorn or meadow sweet into the house
It is unlucky to eat a black rabbit
It is not lucky to eat a holly bush for the "nice folk" would follow you
