School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
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- (continued from previous page)66 When people were married they were brought home to the house and put standing at the door together. Whoever was in first lived longest.
67 If you saw a magpie standing on the road before you. you would have bad luck.
68 It is unlucky to go to a wake alone.
69 If you have a pain in your side spit on a stone three times and it will go.
70 When a corpse leaves the house you should turn all the chairs upside down.
- 71 A funeral should go the longest way to the graveyard.
72 It is unlucky for a newly married couple to go to Mass the first Sunday after the wedding. - 73 A mother should not go to the graveyard with the first dead child.
74 When your tooth falls out you should throw it over your shoulder and say" Mo chuid tubuiste leat."
75 When you are quitting, after a(continues on next page)
