School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)
- Location:
- Willistown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 158
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- Descendants of a mermaid have shiny eyes
Finding a horse shoe is considered lucky: the more nails in it, the better.
If you spill salt you can avert the bad luck by throwing a pinch on the fire.
A lone bush is the abode of the fairies and should not be touched.
A man going to a fair to sell cattle meeting a red-haired woman, will sell nothing that day.
A Whitsuntide child is considered unlucky. He invariably hits any person or thing he fired at. A wound caused by a blow from such a person was difficult to heal.
Marriage in May is Taboo.
To ensure good luck a loaf of bread is broke over the head of a bride on the door-step of her new home.
- Informant
- John Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Smith
- Address
- Mountdoyle, Co. Louth
- Death Omens
The Banshee is still believed in. She is supposed to herald the death of members of the Harmon family and other families connected with it - Heaney, Rogers, Osborne.(continues on next page)
