School: Coill an tSrotha (roll number 5352)

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   "Break the mirror: seven years bad luck."

   "A relative is dead: the banshee is crying."

   "choose a wife neat hand but choose a choose far away."

   "A green Christmas ; a fat graveyard."

   "Two is company, three is a crowd four in a bed is never allowed."

   "Here is the priest; where is the besom."

   "Mary won't get married inside of twelve months; the stool fell behind her."

   "A stranger is coming; a coal fell in front of the fire."

   "He has not nails to scratch himself," said of a man who is in bad circumstances.

   "Whenever you meet a boy, hit him for if he is not doing damage he is thinking of it"

   "Do not go to fish: the mist is coming in the mountain."

   "When going to a fair if a red haired woman is met, bad luck is on the way for the following day."

   "Great heat is off the fire to-night,: cold weather is coming."

   "The hens are out late to-night; to-morrow will be a wet day."

   "The starts are glittering in the sky; a soul is gone to heaven."

   "Snow is coming soon, the cat is sitting near the fire and she has her back to it."

   "A tinker is dead; the ass is braying."

   "Some of our relations are dead, the cock is crowing and it is not twelve o'clock"

   "High wind is coming: the cat is scratching the leg of a chair."

   "A stranger is coming to-day; two hens were fighting on the door-step."

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Thomas Clancy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   64

   Address

   Cullentragh, Co. Leitrim