School: Eanach Mór (roll number 13912)
- Location:
- Annagh More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mártain Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 73
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- (continued from previous page)24a. To let a child who comes into a house go out without a bit of bread or something to eat.
25. To leave the hearth warhead sweeping when you are going to bed at night
26. To beat a person older than yourself
27. To get up or go out in the middle of the night especially to go to a spring well.
28. To open the door after twelve o'clock at night.
29. To point a knife or a fork at any person unless you point it three times to the ground
30. To go out to spring well early in the morning
31. To leave the house without spring water at night.
32. To kill a bumbee because he told about Our Loerd being in it
They say it is not lucky to
1. Start anything on Saturday or Wednesday or whatever day Holy Zanocents fell on that for you. Friday is always the lucky day
2. Meet a red haired woman
3. Return when you have gone farer than the threshold when you are going on a journey
4. Go in one door and out another
5. Start any work or get married the 13the of the month
6. Hatch a brood of thirteen eggs.
7. wear green clothes
8. Light the spot where a frog come out when burning heather.
9. Have a snail in the house
10. Buy a black sheep for the sake of the wool(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mártain Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
