School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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If you meet a red-haired woman, when starting on a journey, it is a sign of bad luck.
If you spilt salt on a table, it is also another sign of bad luck.
Eggs are put in a garden or meadow so that the owner would have bad luck.
If sheet is drawn along the dew early the morning with a bad motive. For instance to take the butter from a neighbour.
Another thing they did was to put a piece of bacon into a field with a bad intention, it is a sign of bad luck.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Shéoighe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr C. O. Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
