School: Gort na Binne (roll number 4846)
- Location:
- Gortnabinny, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máirín Ní Cheallacháin
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“It is wrong to use the mountain ash because the cross was made from it.”
(continued from previous page)Never praise a child without saying "God bless it.'
If somebody is going on a journey, throw a shoe at them, it will bring them luck.
If partners want to change places when card playing, they have to go round the tale. If they cross over the table, they are bringing bad luck to themselves.
Long ago if a young person were sick and looking bad and wasted, the people used to say that the fairies took the good person and put the bad-looking one in his place.
If you hold an umbrella over you head inside in a house you will be dead that day twelve months.