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School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

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Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 015

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    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.
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    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.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Walshe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonruff, Co. Galway