School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann (roll number 11307)

Location:
Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Cathasaigh
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  1. Folklore.
    Pishogues.
    1. A black cat is for good luck.
    2. A horse shoe also is for good luck and is often decorated and hung up as an ornament in the home.
    3. No present of a sharp thing like a scissors, a razor, a penknife, should be given. Those things cut love.
    4. Red-haired women are breakers of ill-luck, to those who meet them on the road.
    5. A single magpie is an omen of ill-luck.
    6. Those who pass under a ladder will never be married.
    7. Place a bit of the bride-cake under your pillow, and you will dream of your future husband or wife.
    8. If you enter a house where churning is in progress, you must lend a hand in the work. Otherwise the butter will not come easily, if at all.
    9. It is unlucky to take a fire out of the house. So if anyone comes in to light his pipe. He must light it inside.
    10. The umber 13 is to be avoided as number for a house. motor, number of visitors, wynds of hay in a field, etc.
    11. Dreams go by opposites. To dream of a
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      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
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