School: Meath Hill (roll number 7166)
- Location:
- Meath Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Patrick J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 139
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- The Live Coal on Monday Morning.
To bring away or take away a live coal from a house on a monday morning, to light a pipe, or another fire etc supposed to be unlucky - it took away the luck from that house
White-thorn bush
Unlucky to cut a lone white thorn bush. He who did so incurred the anger of the "Good People" + was punished by ill-luck, sickness or death. Red-haired woman
Unlucky to meet a red haired woman going to the fairSalt on a Setting of eggs
If I went to Mrs Smith for a setting of eggs I'd ask her to throw a pinch of salt on them to leave the luck with me, + this didn't thereby take from her own luck in doing so.(continues on next page)
