School: Cill Mháille (B.), Inis (roll number 14468)
- Location:
- Kilmaley, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Cuinneáin
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56 Pishrogues
If you wear your stocking intentionally with the wrong side turned out ,it is a sign of luck for the day.
66. The superstition regarding the number 13 does not seem to be held by the old people in the district.
The spilling of salt does not seem to be Irish either.
The breaking of a looking glass or picture is considered unlucky,also the breaking of cups and saucers.
If you get a horseshoe in the way the horse wears it ,it is lucky.
56.A whistling woman or a crowing hen ,Brings no luck to the house they are in.
56. A rush out of a hen's tail is a sign of a funeral.
56.if you visit a house where a woman is going to have a baby ,you must go out the same door as you entered .
(I have known where this happened.)(continues on next page)
