School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)

Location:
Glynn, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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    When you see a new moon bow seven times, but not through glass, and you will get your wish.
    Not to take off your wedding-ring until you would die, or else your luck is broken.
    To see three white horses in one day, you would soon cross water, or to count nine stars for nine succeeding nights you would soon be rich.
    "A whistling woman or a crowing hen,
    Brings bad luck to the house they are in."
    An old rhyme regarding marriages is also said here;
    It is, -
    "Monday is for health,
    "Tuesday for wealth,
    "Wednesday is the best day of all,
    "Thursday for losses,
    "Friday for crosses, and
    "Saturday is no day at all.
    Of all of these I would prefer Monday to them all, because
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