School: Ráithín (B.) (roll number 9304)
- Location:
- Raheen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ua Cróinín
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- Never tell your dreams fasting in the morning or if you do they are sure to come true.If there is a well in the farm the first one that takes water from it May morning will have all the luck of the year.It is unlucky to meet a fair haired woman early in the morning.When people are getting married it is very lucky to strike them on the back with an old shoe.Never make butter May morning.It is unluckly to sell butter May day.Never make a change Monday.Count fifty white horses and the first young man you'll meet after-wards he will be your husband.A sop hanging to a hens tail is the sign of a funeral.A sop cross a hens back someone in the house will die and the coffin will be shouldered to the burying ground.It is the sign of bad luck to meet a magpie(continues on next page)
