School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0539
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- 1. The old people say it is not right to start start work on a Saturday.
2. It is not right to get married on a Monday or Wednesday, because they say these days are not lucky.
3. They say it is not right to eat your nails on a Sunday.
4. A person who dies on Friday, is sure to go to heaven.
5. It is not right to put out ashes on a Monday or Saturday.
6. On Monday morning morning, the men don't like to meet a red haired woman, because they say they would have bad luck.
- 1. They say that it is very lucky to get married on Mondays or Thursdays.
2. They say that it is very unlucky to go living in a new house on a Wednesday or on a Saturday, but to go living in it on a Monday or on a Friday.
3. They also say if you are born on a Saturday, you will have no luck.
4. The men also like to begin work on a Friday.
5. The old people say that Tuesday and Wednesday are the two unlucky days of the week. - Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Conneely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Galway
