School: Magoney
- Location:
- Magoney, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhaolchraoibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 461
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- (continued from previous page)bit or a farthing. It is lucky to see one mag-pie when you are going any where. It is lucky to get married on a Wedesday, blue clothes is the luckiest colour to get married in. It is lucky to find a horse shoe with a nail in it on the road. It is lucky to start ploughing or working on a Friday. It is very lucky to have a goat or a lamb If you find a horse shoe nail with the head of it towards you it is very lucky.
- It is said that if you are going anywhere and meet a red haired person it is unlucky or if you meet a weasel or one magpie. It is also unlucky if you forget anything when you are leaving the house and to turn back. It is also unlucky to take May flowers into a house where you have hens hatched or to take wild Woodbine that grows in the hedge or to give anything out of the house on May Eve. It is unlucky to see crows building at the house where they were never before or for pidgeons to come and stay with you. Saturday is a very unlucky to begin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádhraic Ó hEarmán
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Knocknagarnaman, Co. Monaghan
