School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)
- Location:
- Naas, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776, Page 400
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- If you want a person to win at cards, stick a crooked pin in his coat.
A son born after his father's death has power over fevers.
If three drops of water are given to an infant before it is baptized, it will answer the first three questions put to it.
If one desires to know if a sick person will recover let him take nine smooth stones from running water, fling them over the right shoulder, lay them in a turf fire to remain untouched for one night. If the person is to die the stones will emit a clear, bell-like sound in the morning.
A hen that crows is very unlucky and should be killed.
Never tell your dreams fasting and always tell them first to a woman called "Mary".
To dream of a hearse with white plumes is a wedding, but to dream of a wedding is grief and death will follow.
To dream of a horse is exceedingly lucky.
To dream of a priest is bad. To dream of the devil is even better. A present or purchase from a priest is also unlucky.
Omens that forbode evil
To stick a pen-knife the mast of a boat, when sailing.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patricia Meade
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Poplar Square, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Mrs Alice Meade
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Poplar Square, Co. Kildare
