School: Dunally (roll number 12752)
- Location:
- Doonally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Florence Egan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 073
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- To meet a red-haired person on the road first thing in the morning is bad luck.
Crossed knives means a fight in the house.
To meet a horseman in the morning is good luck.
To break a mirror is seven years bad luck.
One magpie is for sorrow, two for joy, three for a wedding and four for a boy.
Crows cawing around a house is a sign of a death.
If a frog comes into a house it is a sign of a death.
When a cat stops washing her face, the first person she looks at dies first.
To spill ink is bad luck.
Spill salt, spill sorrow.
When you hear the cuckoo for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Conan Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hazelwood Demesne, Co. Sligo
