School: Druim an t-Seagail (roll number 1772)
- Location:
- Ryehill Demesne, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Máire Ní Eimhirín Seosamh P. Ó hUigín Áine Ní Uigín
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- If you build a house on top of a hill you wouldn't be lucky.
If your neighbor killed a pig for you on a Monday the neighbor would have bad luck.
If a neighbor took a coal out of your fire and fired it out the door you wouldn't have good luck.
If you tool a coal from a bonfire on St. John's eve and brought it into the house you'd bring in the fairies.
When sparks come from a fire money is coming to you.
If you came in the front door and went out the back door you would have bad luck.
If you took milk on May Day the person you took it from would have bad luck.
Ot wouldn't be right to give a coal on May Day.
It isn't right to churn without a coal under the churn as the fairies will bring the butter.
It is right to throw a coal from St John's fire on the beet to take the bad luck from it.
It isn't right to set a hen hatching without sprinkling holy water on the eggs.
