School: Garrán Bán, Dúngarbhán
- Location:
- Garranbaun, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maolchatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0646, Page 145
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- 1. If you place a boot or a shoe on a table you would meet a disappointment.
2. If you put one of your stockings or a garment inside out in the morning you would have good luck for the day.
3. A cock crowing at the step of the door is a sign that someone in the place is going to die.
4. A straw after a hen is the sign of a funeral.
5. It is unlucky to leave the sign of milk on a bucket when going for water.
6. It is unlucky to visit a house on your way to Mass.
7. A visitor to a house when leaving should turn over any iron tool, otherwise he will bring away the luck of the house.
8. If a visitor enters a house where butter is being made he must take a few turns out of the churn-barrel or otherwise it is believed the butter will not come.
9. It is unlucky to meet a red haired woman at any time of the day but particularly if she is the first person to meet in the morning.
10. To spill salt during the meal will bring seven years bad luck. If a pinch of the spilt salt is thrown over the right shoulder the bad luck is turned aside.
11. If wine was spilled at a wedding the married pair would have bad luck during the year.(continues on next page)
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- Pupils 5th - 6th Standard
