School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)
- Location:
- Doochorran, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Mhic an Ríogh
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4. If you go out and wash your face in the dew on a May morning you will be free from sunburn and freckles for the year.
5.If you spill salt you will have bad luck and if you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
6. If you find a horse shoe when you are planting potatoes or sowing oats you will have good crops.
7. If you hang a piece of rowan tree over the door on May Eve you will have good luck during the year. If you make a ring of same and place it over the dash when churning on May Morning you will have a good yield of butter for the year and the butter cannot be taken from you.
8. If a cow has two calves it is a sign of good luck.
9. It is counted lucky to find a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doochorran, Co. Leitrim