School: Sraithín (roll number 12808)
- Location:
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Croidhean
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- (continued from previous page)It is said that if you bring a pipe out of a corpse house you are bringing the death to your own house.
It is said that if you hear the bean sidhe you will hear of a death.
If a robin comes into a house it is said some one will leave.
It is said that if a swallow comes into a house it is the sigh of bad luck. - 8/12/38
It is said that if you say you will go in a place and to die before you have time to go, you will go after your death.
It is said that if a man is not shaved before hie is buried he will not go to heaven.