School: An Mhainistir i gCill Chiaráin
- Location:
- Kilkerrin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Bráthair Féidhlim Ó hAlmhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 261
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- 1. It is unlucky to meet a red haired woman going to the fair because you would have to turn home or else you would have bad luck at the fair.
2. It is unlucky to break a mirror in a house because you would have seven years bad luck.
3. It is unlucky to give out milk on May-Day because if you did you would be giving out for the coming year.
4. If you put on your stockings inside out you would have good luck for the rest of the day.
5. If you got a pin lost and it shut you would have good luck.
6. To get married in green.
7. To put an addition to a house on the west side.
8. To get married in a church where a corpse is left at the same time.
9. Two "dragging homes" to meet.
10. To enter a graveyard alone is unlucky.
11. To cut bushes that grow round a fort.
12. To wear a new suit for the first time at a funeral.
13. To cut your nails on a Sunday morning.
14. To work the soil after sunset.
15. To throw out sweepings after sunset.
16. If you met a funeral you should convy it a piece of the way.
17. A newly married couple should not cross under a ladder
Not to be married on 13th of any month.
