School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Dillon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 337
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- Superstitions (1) If the people lend anything belonging to a churn their butter will be taken away.
(2) If the sun rises on the front of a house it is a sign of bad luck.
(3) If you are going to a fair and meet a red haired women it is the sign if bad luck.
(4) It is bad luck to spill salt.
(5) If you cut a lonely bush something will happen to you before long.
(6) If you dig a fort or cut lonely bushes you will die soon a terrible death.
(7) If you break a looking glass you will have bad luck for seven years.
(8) If you go to a house and them churning and go out with out a brash you will take the butter with you.
(9) If you get a pen lost and pick(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Dunleavy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Dunleavy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
