School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)
- Location:
- Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 103
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- If a red dog comes in to the house some one is going to die.
If you put on your stockings inside out you will have good luck.
If a girl drops her glove on the morning of her wedding some mistake will happen as the result of the wedding.
If you put an umbrella above your head inside a house it is for bad luck.
If a spark comes out of the fire when you are fixing it it is said that you are going to get money.
That if you put on one shoe and lace it before you put on the other you are going to have very bad luck.
That if a person breaks a mirror he or she will have bad luck, for seven years.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Drumaville, Co. Donegal
