School: Foxrock (St Brigid's)
- Location:
- Foxrock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 50
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- (continued from previous page)If is bad luck for the person who hits either man or beast with an Elder rod.
If you fall in the Churchyard, you will be the next to go into it.
If a stray dog comes to the door and if you give him something to eat and then if he lingers around it is a sign of good luck, and you are supposed to keep him until an owner comes for him, and if they do not come, you are supposed to keep him.
If you hear a dog crying it is the sign of a death near by.
If any one is churning the the dairy it is bad luck for the person who passes by without taking a dash out of it.
If the fire lights all to one side it is the sign of a visitor coming to the house that day.
If a bumble bee flies around the house it also is the sign of a visitor.
There is a small verse referring to picking pins:-
See a pin, and pick it up,
And all the day you'll have good luck,
See a pin, and pass [?] it by,
You'll want a pine before you die,Thirteen is an unlucky number.
A black frog is the sign of rain.
If a picture falls off the wall of its own accord it is supposed to be the sign of death in the family.
