School: Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla (roll number 11249)
- Location:
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Óda (Archdeacon)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 257
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- They say that if you killed a cricket the other crickets in house would eat all your stockings.One magpie for luck,
Two for joy
Three for marriage
Four to die.
(If you saw one magpie it is a sign of [blank], two magpies is a sign of good luck, three magpies a marriage, and four, a funeral).If a "hairy molly" crossed your path it is the sign of death.
(A "hairy molly" is the popular term for a black hairy worm called a centipede.)If you killed a beetle, they would walk all over your house.People believe that there is a man in the Moon. There is a story told of how this man got up there.
One day a man was gathering sticks. He heard a voice calling: "Put down those sticks." The poor man remonstrated and said that he wanted them. But the next minute he was taken up into moon where he is to be seen ever since with a [?] on his shoulder.
- Collector
- Nellie Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Callaghan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
