School: Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla (roll number 11249)
- Location:
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Óda (Archdeacon)
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- It is unlucky to leave your house n a Monday and then turn towards the South.
It is unlucky to leave your house on a Friday and turn towards the east.
It is unlucky to leave your house on a Saturday and turn towards the West.
To meet a hare is a sign of an unlucky journey.
Spiders denote something new to wear.
Butter, sign of a death.
The altar and grave should be turned towards the South.
If a cricket flow end in the yard it is a sign of fair weather.
When a star falls it is a sign of a soul going to heaven. The head of the bud should be turned towards the east, west, or north.
(Received above from Mary Burke, a pupil, of Bumfort, N.S, who heard them from her mother residing at Bottlehill, Bumport.)
M.B: Received the above superstitions from several other pupils.
If a woman with a child ([?]) sees hare in field the child when born will have a hare lip
- Collector
- Mary Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Burke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
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“If a woman with child...”
If a woman with child (enceinte) sees hare in field the child when born will have a hare lip.
