School: Buidheachair (Rockcorry)
- Location:
- Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Énrí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)Sleeping on a bride's cake makes one dream of her future husband.
Horse shoes tied to the bride's car and old boots are supposed to bring luck.If a bride wears
"Something old and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue,"
she considers herself a lucky bride.It is unlucky for a bride to see her groom before the ceremony on the marriage day.
If a bride has lost her mother by death, she thinks it unlucky to marry before is a year dead.
A bride thinks she is lucky if she is handed a pair of tongs before entering her new home.
It is a common belief that should a bride dress in her wedding outfit before her marriage she will never get occasion to wear it at her wedding.A bride when she gets married likes to
"Change the name and also the letter because if not it is a Change for worse and not for better."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Violet Pattison
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Aghadrumkeen, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Pattison
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Aghadrumkeen, Co. Monaghan
