School: Beanntraighe (3) (roll number 10548)
- Location:
- Bantry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Íde Hurst
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281, Page 185
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- If a spider creeps on your clothes you will get something new.
If your nose is itchy some one is talking about you.
A knife falling denotes a stranger to the house.
Boots on the table foretell a quarrel.
If your right hand is itchy you will get a shake hands.
Spilt salt foreshows a quarrel.
When a robin flies against the window it is a sign of news.
Right eye itchy denotes laughter.
Left eye itchy denotes crying.
Left hand itchy, you will get money.
If a spoon falls a disappointment will follow.
When a donkey brays a tinker has died.
If there is a sop on a hen's tail it is a sign of a funeral.
A moth resting on your clothes shows you will get a letter.
It is not right to visit a person on Monday.
Don't take a milky vessel to the well for water.
If sparks fly out of the fire you will get money.
It is lucky to find a horseshoe.
One magpie for luck, two for sorrow, three a wedding, four a birth.(continues on next page)
