School: An Daingean, Cuinche
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Stiofán Mac Clúin Treasa Ní Chonmara
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Unlucky Acts.
Meeting a woman with red hair when starting on a journey or for work or going to a fair or going match- making.
Belief in the 'evil eye 'of certain people
Belief in over-looking a person or thing.
Accepting a bait when out fishing without paying for it with something else as a stone or some other object of little or no value.
Giving fire out of a house on May Day.
Taking stones out of an old Church.
Stumbling over a grave.
A woman in child to accompany a funeral into a grave-yard.
To dig a grave on a Monday.
To take a tobacco pipe off a grave.
To build an addition to the west side of a house.
To make any addition to a haunted house.
To meddle with an earthen fort.
To move into a new house except on Friday.(continues on next page)
