School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)
- Location:
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 487
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- (continued from previous page)9. If a man gets a dead man's clothes he should wear them three Sundays first.
10. It is unlucky to open an umbrella over you inside a house.
11. You should never wash your feet near the fire or the fairies would carry you.
12. The women long ago would not let you rock an empty cradle or twist an empty barrell.
13. You should not wear new shoes going to a wake or to a funeral.
14. It is a sign of rain to see a cat lying near the fire in the middle of the day.
15. It is unlucky to give out seed of fire in the month of May.
16. It is lucky to have a male goat with cows.
17. It is unlucky to pick flowers May Day.
18. If a person go under a briar before playing cards he would have good luck.
19. If you stuck a pin in the tail of a person's coat when he is playing cards he would have good luck.
20. If a person took the ace of spade out of the deck when he is playing cards he would have good luck.
21. When a sod falls from the fire there is some one coming.
22. It is not right to throw out water after milking the cows.
23. There did a man go into a house to redden a fag and the woman would not let him out without he giving her a few pulls of the fag or go three(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Coileán
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
