School: Deravoy (roll number 373)
- Location:
- Derryveagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Treanor
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- (continued from previous page)Many farmers began work of putting in crops on Good Friday.
To bring good luck on animals to be sold in a fair the first person met should wish the owner "good luck".
The morning of a marriage the first person into the house was supposed to do the same "a wish good luckTo work int he same townland as a corpse was considered unlucky.
If a grave sank in soon after the burial of a corpse another meber of the family was to die within the year.
If a cock crew three times after sunset - ie on the roost - it presaged death for a member of the household.
The creaking of the crook was a sign of a visitor
A lef falling had a similar meaning
A straw sticking to a hen's tail was the same.
In parts of the district no spider is ever killed
- Collector
- E. Treanor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
