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School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)

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Mungret, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 112

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  1. Old Superstitions

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    It is unlucky to leave feet water in the house on Saturday night. Some people consider it unlucky to leave it in the house any night. If they did they would expect to have had dreams.
    It is unlucky to bring cow slips into a house when a hen is hatching. The farmers wife would not like to see the children bring in gosling flowers when she would have a goose hatching, nor would she like to give a clutch of eggs to any person when her own birds would be hatching.
    It is lucky to leave the brush behind the door when going to bed.
    It is unlucky to bring white thorn or black thorn blossoms into the house or lilac into the house during the month of May.
    It is unlucky to walk under a ladder.
    It is unlucky to strike a person or an animal with an elder stick or with a sweeping brush with a dish cloth.
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