School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 033
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: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- XML Page 033
- XML “Lucky and Unlucky Signs”
- XML “Lucky and Unlucky Signs”
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
- If a person spits out when walking under a ladder he will have good luck.
If there are two lights burning in the same room for two nights in succession someone will die in that house.
If you tooth falls out and if you put it on your window-sill at night and if it is gone in the morning you will have good luck.
If you see a white horse in the morning you will have good luck.
If you drop a fork you will have company.
- Collector
- Niall de Stac
- Gender
- Male
- A whistling woman or a crowing hen, there is neither luck nor grace in the house they are in.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Riobárd de Stac
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyassa, Co. Kerry
