School: Crummy (roll number 12691)

Location:
Crummy, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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    23. If you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
    24. If onions are stolen from you, they will not grow with you for seven years.
    25. No bad luck will enter a house for twelve months if a man enters it first on New Year's day.
    26. It is not lucky to have out-offices built at each end of the dwelling house, and it was often the means of breaking up a match.
    27. When the bride's party went to look at the groom's house found fault with it on account of out-offices being built at each end.
    28. If a man marries a widow woman he goes in on a different door to the door the first man wen in on, and if there was only one door on the house he would go in on the window.
    29. It is unlucky to meet a red-haired woman when going on business, and you should turn back.
    30. Long ago when people were going to a house they put the four corner stones in there places the first day and the next day, if the stones are in the same places they
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Govern
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rantoge Glebe, Co. Leitrim