School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 340
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- It's unlucky to do anything for Monday morning on Sunday night.
It's unlucky to cut your nails on Fridays and Sundays.
It's unlucky to move into a new house on Fridays - especially First Fridays.
- Collector
- Jennie Ffrench
- Gender
- Female
- Saturday's spitting - short sitting.
If a person wants to buy goods on Whit Monday, its unlucky to pay for them that day.
If a person crys on his birthday it is said no day will pass till his next birthday - but he will have cause to cry.
- Anything one does on New Year's Day it is said he will be doing that all the year.
- It's unlucky to wash your hair on Sunday.
Anything begun on Saturday is usually never finished.
It's unlucky to be married in May.
- It's unlucky to be born round Whit.
13th November is a very lucky date to be born on.
It's unlucky to leave the house all Soul's night
