School: Drong (2)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fháinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 402
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- If a stick falls out of the fire there is someone coming in to that house.
If the cock crow's three times at the door you'll have visitors coming to see you.
If you were going to a fair and you met a red-haired woman you would have bad luck when you would go to the fair.
If a hen goes round the house with a straw hanging from her tail you'll have visitors coming to see you.
Never sit down o a table with thirteen guests because it is an unlucky number.
If you put your clothes on in-side-out in the morning don't turn them because it is lucky to put them on in-side-out.
If you have a hen that flies on the half door and crows you are supposed to bring her to a cross road an let her out and not watch where she goes.
Whoever a cat looks first at after she washes her face will die first in that house.
It is supposed to be very unlucky to look through a window and see the new moon.
- Collector
- May Hudson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rakenny, Co. Cavan
