School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 427
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- (continued from previous page)house and anyone comes in, he says "good luck to the work".
14. When one is passing ...(?), he must pull a piece of it and eat it.
15. If a person pulls a tooth, he must go outside and throw it over his right shoulder.
16. If a person has something in his hands when he first sees the new moon, he will have his hands full until the moon is out.
17. When a person that there is a new moon and does not see it, he gets money in his hands, goes out, faces the moon, and blesses himself, so that his hands will be full until the moon is out.
18. If anything is burned in the rising of the moon, it is said to be for good luck.
19. If anything is burned in the falling of the moon, it is said to be for bad luck.
20. Some people are afraid to leave a baby alone in the house. When some go out, they have a habit of leaving the tongs over the cradle so that the fairies could not take it.
21. Some are afraid to drain off water in case it might have something to do with the fairies.
- Collector
- Cathleen O' Boyle
- Gender
- Female
