School: Árd Phádraig

Location:
Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Pilib Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 286

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    If you see a spider walking on your clothes you'll get a new suit.
    If you walk over a brush you'll never 'see' the height of four feet.
    People say that if you let a looking glass fall you won't have luck for seven years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. If you put a box on your left shoulder you will grow no more.
    If you see two hens fighting it is said you will have a visitor.
    If there is a feather on the back of your coat you will have good luck.
    If you saw a straw on a hen's tail it is a sign you will have a visitor.
    It is said if you pull the crook on which the pots are hung you are washing the devil's
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie Power
    Gender
    Male