School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)Those men are only friendly neighbours not paid help.
21. Water & soap used in washing corpse should always be thrown where no one can walk on them.
22. Razor & strop used to shave corpse are given to the man who performs this task.23. If you break a looking-glass you'll have bad luck for seven years hand-running.24. It is unlucky to bring hawthorn blossom into a house, same said of snow drops and lilac.25. When one person dies two others are likely to die in the same townland before the year is out.26. The last person buried in the graveyard must "mind the gate" (of the graveyard) till the next funeral.27. If you meet a funeral on the road and have warts say "Corpse, corpse take my warts away".If a person put goose-eggs in the four corners of his neighbour's field he would be able to take the strength of the field into his own crops.(continues on next page)
