School: Seana-bhaile (roll number 13889)
- Location:
- Shanbally, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Floinn
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- At the wells in Barnahely, which is between Ringaskiddy and Shanbaly, every night a black dog is supposed to be seen at eleven o'clock. My mother saw it. It was a dark, cold night.
If a person comes in the back door, and out the front door, it is said he would take the luck out of the house.
When the sea gulls are seen in a grassy field it is the sign of rain.
If there is a ring around the moon, it is the sign of stormy weather.
A salmon sky is the sign of good weather.
Three lights in one room is a sign of an approaching death.
If you light three cigarettes with one match it is supposed to be unlucky.
If a person broke a mirror it is supposed to bring seven years bad luck.
There are old sayings about magpies, to see one is for sorrow, two is for joy, three to get married, and four to die.
It is supposed to be unlucky to leave salt fall, a pinch of the salt that fell is thrown over the right shoulder.
- Collector
- Martin O' Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Barnahely, Co. Cork
