School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- No one likes a woman that is not churched to go into their house as she is supposed to bring bad luck. If a man sat three times under a bow shaped briar, he would be able to colour the cards. If a man was a good gambler the people say “He sat under a briar.”
Collected by: - Seoirse Riain Crossard
Told by: - George Ryan(senior) Crossard.
(55 years)
- Collector
- Seoirse Riain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- George Ryan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Crossard, Co. Clare
- If you kill a hare on May day you will have bad luck for the year. If you carry a deck of cards to Mass in your pocket, you will have good luck when playing cards for the rest of the year. When an ass brays it is a sign a tinker is dead.
Collected by: - Tadhg Ó Diolúin, Crossard.
Told by: - Martin McMahon, Crossard, (his grandfather)
(66 years)
