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School: Scoil na mBráthair, An Teampall Mór (roll number 13247)

Location:
Templemore, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 044

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  1. Good or Bad Luck

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    To fine a horseshoe or a piece of coal is the sign of good luck.
    It is a sure sign of bad luck to meet one magpie and it is a sure sign of good luck to meet two magpies.
    A red- haired woman is very unlucky.
    To meet a hare is the sign that something bad will happen to you.
    See a pin, pick it up
    All the year you will have good luck.
    If you put your boots on wrong - the left on the right and the right on the left, you will have good luck all the year round.
    It is a sign of good luck if you meet three white horses without seeing a red-haired woman.
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