School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The are many things that people say at weddings If a person got two spoons they would say he would be asked to a wedding. If a cup got broken in the house where the bridegroom would be living they say she would have no luck .Other piseoga . It is unlucky to meet a red haired woman when going on a journey.
Too see a magpie is a sign of bad luck.To see three of them is a sign of good luck A sod of turf is the sign of someone to come.
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Cinnéidí
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Knocknahannee, Co. Clare
