School: Cloncarneel
- Location:
- Cluain Chairn Aoil, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)gentleman will visit you, and if a fork a lady will visit you. To meet a crow on the road you will get money. When the fire falls there is someone coming. To get money the day after New Year's day you will be getting it all the year round. If you find a safety pin you will have good luck.
Here is a rhyme about magpies.One for bad luck
Two for good luck
Three for a wedding
Four for a christeningUnlucky OmensIt is unlucky to spill salt, to burn alder. It is unlucky to see one magpie, to meet a red-haired woman on a Saturday night.
It is unlucky to build an addition to the North side of a house.
It is unlucky to knock down an old house unless one is built in its place.
Guinea-hens are also unlucky.
It is unlucky to break a mirror, it is said you will have seven years bad luck.
It is unlucky to cross a plough unless you cross it back.
It is unlucky to walk under a ladder.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Janie Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluain Chairn Aoil, Co. na Mí
