School: Raharoon, Droichead Banndan (roll number 12921)
- Location:
- Ratharoon West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0313, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)It is unlucky to interfere with a grave.
If a person fell in a graveyard, at a funeral that person would be the first to die.
It is unlucky to be the last person coming out of a grave.
Four persons bearing the same name as the dead person should shoulder the coffin.
"Happy is the corpse that the rain, rains on"
- Whatever is borrowed for a wake, must be returned by the same person who borrowed it
It is not right to go home from a wake alone after dark. - It is not right to visit a sick person for the first time on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday
If a person falls sick on a Friday, he will not recover.
When a lily blooms, the maid fades.
If May blossoms were carried into a house someone in the house would get sick within a week.
