School: Loch Measca
- Location:
- Cathair Roibeird, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean an Bhrúnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)8. If a girl breaks a needle while sewing it means a proposal of marriage
9. If you sing before breakfast you'll cry before supper
10. It's unlucky to stir your tea or coffee counter-clockwise
11. Anything silver falling to the floor means that visitors are coming
If a knife falls a man will come. If a fork it is a lady who will come, and if a spoon falls a baby visitor will come.
12. Be careful not to spill salt or you'll have bad luck unless you toss some over your left shoulder. If you drop the salt shaker it means something strange is going to happen.
13. Thirteen people sitting at the same dinner table are supposed to bring misfortune on the house they are in
14. To spill water or wine you are in for a good fight
15. Three people should not light their pipes or cigarette with the one match(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughmask Castle, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mrs B. Ward
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cill Odhar, Co. Mhaigh Eo
