School: Coone, Leighlinbridge (roll number 5713)
- Location:
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Éamonn de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 315
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- (continued from previous page)37. If you walk under a ladder, you will stop growing.
38. If you strike a person with a clean stick he will grow no more.
39. If a herring pea swells when you put it on the fire, you will cross the sea.
40. If you whitewash the house in May, You will be sick on Christmas Day.
41. If your eye itches you will cry soon.
42. Whoever looks first at the cat after she has washed her face will soon die.
43. A whistling woman and a crowing hen.
44. If you pay out on Monday, you will pay out all through the week.
45. Exchanging money with your friends on New Years’ Day is considered lucky.
46. If you are unlucky at cards turn your money on the table, or in your pocket.
47. Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.
48. Letting your gloves fall is a sign of disappointment.
49. If you hear the death watch beetle somebody in the house is going to die.
50. To find a nail or a pin is lucky.
51. If you give a pin to anybody stick it in wood or else it will break friendship.
52. If your hair falls out, you will lose a friend.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamonn R. De Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
