School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)A person should never go out of the house without taking the churn when a person is churning.
You should always put a coal under a churn when you are churning or you will have bad luck with the butter.
You should never exchange eggs you are going to set or you will take the luck out of them.
If you set the eggs that are going to be hatched, at night, they will be all cocks
If a person gives away a clocking hen some of their horses will die.
If two people wash in the same dish, they will fight if they do not spit in the same water.
If you look at a cat after washing its face, you will die the first in the house.
If a person looks in the mirror three times on Hallow Eve he will see the devil
If when the farmers are going to sell their bonhams, if they do not bring them in a cish they will have bad luck.
If a red haired woman comes into the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Lowe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Offaly
