School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 11_037
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- It is very unlucky to hear a hen crowing. As the old proverb is: "The whistle of a woman, the crow of a hen. There is never any luck in the house therin." They say if you do not put a coal under the churn when you are churning the fairies would take the butter that night. It is right not to sweep the hearth when a corpse is in the house because the poor souls are around the hearth. It would be very unlucky not to tie a red rag around a cows tail after calling. It is very lucky to wear a black and white stocking going to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Tedders
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Laffey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shrule, Co. Mayo
