School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)to live or she will have bad luck.
In some parts of Ireland when she is going in to her father-in-laws house some woman gives her a piece of dough to throw and see would it stick over the door, if it sticks she will have good luck, and if it does not she will have bad luck.
The bride should never fit her wedding ring or fit the clothes that she is going to wear at her marriage until she is getting married or she will have bad luck.
She also has to wear;
Something old and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue.
If you burn flowers you bring sickness into the house.
If you bring hawthorn into the house you bring sickness into it.
If you pull a certain flower called "the Bishop's Cap" you will have bad luck.
You should never churn under a rafter.
A person should never smoke when people are churning or they will take the luck out of the churn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Lowe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Offaly
