School: Mocklershill, Caiseal (roll number 14256)
- Location:
- Mocklershill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)on the same site you should not move the hearth. A grave is never opened on a Monday. If necessary the first sod is dug on Sunday. It is unlucky to cut the bushes on a fort. Two magpies mean good luck and one bad luck. If however the magpie flies away to the right the bad luck goes with it and, if to the left the bad luck is intensified. If a swarm of bees enters your house it is a sign of good luck. If crows build around your house it is a good sign, if they leave it is a bad sign.
To counter-act the taking of your milk or cream by pisheogues you should put the coulter of the plough in the fire and redden it. This is supposed to burn the guilty person, who is supposed to come to the house and try to remove the coulter.
