School: Garryhill
- Location:
- Garryhill, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0905, Page 306
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- Magpies: One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth.Irish people consider it very unlucky to-
1) Bring hawthorn into the house.
2) Meet a red-haired woman on the road.
3) Open an umbrella in the house.
4) Go back for something you forgot if you have already started on a journey.
5) To pull bushes out of rath.
6) To walk under a ladder.
7) To spill the salt.
8) Dream about priests or nuns.
9) Wear green.
10) Break a mirror.
11) To see the new moon through glass for the first moon.
12) Grey at a wedding.
13) To sit thirteen at table.(continues on next page)
