School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)
- Location:
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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- My grandmother told me:-
that if a hen crows you will have bad luck. Long ago if a hen crew the person would bring him to a cross-roads and which ever road the took there would be bad luck on it.
If you found a piece of coal on the road and put it in your pocket it is said you would get money if you kept it.
If you saw two magpies on the road you would have good luck and if you saw one you would have bad luck.
It is said that if a knife fell there is a man coming to visit you.
It is said that if you keep a piece of blessed palm in the cowshed the milk will be good during the year.
If a black cat came and stayed in a house it is said you would have good luck.
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- Collector
- William Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monknewtown, Co. Meath
