School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 290
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mastersons
- XML Page 290
- XML “Superstitions”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Superstitions.
Florence Sharpe Masterson's N.S. from Mrs Kearney Donabeg manohamilton over 80 yrs.
Some people think it lucky to find a horse shoeand some keep one hangingup over the door so as to have luck for the yeat It must be put upside down.
Some persons think if a person comes in on one doorand goes out on the other he takes the luck of the housewith him
They also say it is not right to go through a door with a weapon (meaning a shovel or spade etc) on your shoulder.
Some people would not give you a pin or a needle without sticking it in wood afraid it would cause fighting
- Collector
- Florence Sharpe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Donagh Beg, Co. Leitrim
