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

Location:
Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Michael Quinn
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    121. A girl should never whistle because she insults the Blessed Virgin Mary.
    122. You should never bring in clothes off a hedge at night.
    123. You should never bring water from a spring well at night after twelve o' clock because the fairies would catch you.
    124. When you come home from a funeral you should take salt or the fairies would kill you.
    125. When you are frying a herring turn its back to the fire.
    126. When there is a marriage if the woman forgets her handbag it is a sure sign that she will die before the year is out.
    127. If money is sweating in your pocket you are going to lose it.
    128. When a sod falls out it is a sign of a visitor.
    129. A spider creeping along old clothes is supposed to get new clothes.
    130. If on your finger nails you have white dots you are supposed to have friends or foes or journeys to go.
    131. On finding a horse shoe lost if you
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