School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)

Location:
Lavally, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 228

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 228

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Bloomfield
  2. XML Page 228
  3. XML “Pisreoga”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. If you are facing a graveyard when you hear the cuckoo for the first time you will be dead in twelve months.
    If a swan flies over a house, someone in the hosue will be dead before twelve months.
    If you miss a piece of ridge when planting potatoes it is said that either a person or an animal will be dead before twelve months.
    If you see a new moon through glass it is a sign of sickness.
    If a star is seen flying you should say, - 'Lord have mercy on the dead' It is a sign of someone going to heaven
    It is said that if you break a mirror you will have seven years' bad luck.
    If a hen crows it is a sign that deven years'
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Riverstown, Co. Sligo