School: Moate (2) (roll number 10884)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: S. Ó Ruairc L. Mac Coiligh
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- (1) If a person kills a swallow their cow will milk blood. - Johnny Galvin, Oliver Plunkett Tce, Moate.
(2) It is not lucky to hunt a goat out of a field where there are cattle, because a goat is lucky- as above
(3) If you see one magpie it is unlucky, if you see two it is lucky- Billie Flynn, Athlone Road Moate
(4) Referring to magpies:-
(A) One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding,
Four for a boy.
Patrick Mac Cormack,
Ballyecassim.
Moate. (heard at home.)
(B) 0ne for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three to get married,
Four to die,
Five for silver
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret
That is never to be told.
Joe Flynn, The Moat,
Moate.
(5) If you rob a magpies' nest with young, they will come the next year and take your chickens.
Willie Delaney, Clara Road, Moate.
(6) If you kill a magpie you will have bad luck.
(7) If two people meet on the the stairs it is unlucky.
(8) If when you have your tea drank, you take a tea leaf and put it on the back of your hand. Then with the other hand - closed fist, -you pound it (the tea leaf) and if the leaf sticks to the fist, while you say, with each pound, Monday, Tuesday etc, if at Monday it sticks
- 4) Referring to magpies:-
(A) One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a wedding,
Four for a boy.
Patrick Mac Cormack,
Ballyecassim.
Moate. (heard at home.)
(B) 0ne for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three to get married,
Four to die,
Five for silver
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret
That is never to be told. - 5) If you rob a magpies' nest with young, they will come the next year and take your chickens.
- Collector
- Liam P. Mac Coiligh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Patrick Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyscarvan, Co. Westmeath
- (6) If you kill a magpie you will have bad luck.
- (7) If two people meet on the the stairs it is unlucky.
- (8) If when you have your tea drank, you take a tea leaf and put it on the back of your hand. Then with the other hand - closed fist, -you pound it (the tea leaf) and if the leaf sticks to the fist, while you say, with each pound, Monday, Tuesday etc, if at Monday it sticks(continues on next page)
