School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- Superstitions
1) If you fall in a graveyard you are sure to dye die before the year is out.
2) If a rooster crows at an unusual hour as about sunset, bad news will come to the people that the rooster belongs to.
3) A hen that ventures to crow should be killed or she will bring bad luck on the people that owns her, because a whistling maid and a crowing hen, are good for neither God nor men
4) It is unlucky for hens to lay small eggs, and not only that these eggs cannot be sold, but it will bring bad luck besides that.
5) The meeting of one magpie is as unlucky as the meeting of(continues on next page)
