School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)

Location:
Cashel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
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    on your way to the fair you should turn back or you would have bad luck.
    6. If you got married in May you would have bad luck.
    7. If you got married on a Wednesday you would have good luck.
    8. If you found a horse-shoe and if you threw it over your shoulder and if you did not look at it any more you would have good luck.
    9. If a picture fell off the wall someone in the house would die soon.
    10. If you broke a mirror you would have seven year's bad luck.
    11. If you spilled salt you would have a row; but if you threw the salt over your shoulder you would have no row.
    12. If you met a red-haired woman and if you were going fishing you would catch no fish that day.
    13. If you saw a white horse early in the morning and if you were
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Colm O' Hegarty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Charterschool Land, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs D. O' Hegarty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Charterschool Land, Co. Tipperary