School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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- (continued from previous page)eye was itchy you would be going to cry It is unlucky to have thirteen buttons in a wedding dress. If your nose was itchy someone is talking about you. A spoon to the floor a stranger to the door. If a person went in one door of a house and out the other he would unknowingly carry away the luck of the house If a person crossed over your feet you would never grow.
- When two cocks fight it is the sign of a stranger coming to the house.
It is considered unlucky to brush the floor with bism or to strike a cow with bism. It is unlucky to get one's hair cut on Friday. If two people begin to utter the same thought together it is a sign that they will both live for another year. If you were going on a journey and to go back again you would(continues on next page)
