School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- 29. If you go to the well late at night by yourself, you will see something in the well.
30 If you are at the well first on new Years Day you will have luck for the year.
31. It is not right to go to the river with the trace of milk in the can,
32. The first one the cat looks at after washing his face will soon die.
33. On May Day some people go and milk the neighbours cows. It is said that if they do they will have butter.
34. If you spend any money on New Years Day you would spend it every day in the year.
35. If you break a mirror you will have seven years bad luck.
- Collector
- Kathleen Foy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bohamore, Co. Mayo
