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School: Model School, Clonmel

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Cluain Meala, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Ella M. Adams
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    Superstitions October 1938
    Here are some of the local superstitions heard around Clonmel.
    If a very beautiful small flower names "Burn the House" is brought into a house to house will go on fire. Hawthorn is also supposed to be unlucky in a house.
    If an umbrella is put up in a house it will bring bad luck.
    Some people would not allow three lights to be let in a house under any conditions.
    If a person walks under a ladder leaning against a wall he will never grow any bigger.
    If one wears a green dress it is supposed to bring bad luck.
    If toadstools are brought into a house the fairies are supposed to abuse the person that picked them until he puts the toadstools back.
    There is a rhyme about magpies being lucky and unlucky. Here it is
    One for sorrow
    Two for mirth
    Three for a wedding
    Four for a birth .
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. creidiúint (~391)
        1. creidiúint choiteann (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jessie Sparrow
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Cluain Meala, Co. Thiobraid Árann