School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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- (continued from previous page)10. If your ear is hot somebody is talking about you, you should wet your ear and they will bite their tongue.
11. If you feel a shiver running over you, a goose is walking over your grave.
12. If the grease runs down the side of the candle it means that your shroud is been made.
13. It is unlucky to bring hawthorn into the house.
14. When there is a lump on the wick of a candle a letter may be expected.
15. It is wrong to place a new shoe on the table
If you do you will never wear it
16. You will not have three lights in the one room because it means there is going to be a death
17. If a spider crawls on your clothes you will get a new coat
18. When you are talking and mix up the words you will talk to a stranger.
19. If a cock crows in the night a person in the house hold is dying.
20. When an ass bawls in the night a tinker is dead.
21. A white speck on your little finger nail is a sign you have a friend on the next finger a foe(continues on next page)
