School: Ballyharry (roll number 11235)
- Location:
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Bríde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 502
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- (continued from previous page)water all around the house and you should not put up the first smoke on May morning because the witches make for the first smoke.
If you come accidentally on a heel track in the ashes on All Souls morning it is a sign that somebody will leave the house but if you come on the track of a toe somebody will come to the house. It is forbidden to look for these tracks.
If the horse that draws the hearse is restless when the corpse is being put in it is a sign of another death.
If there is a crack in a grave another person will soon die.
It is unlucky to drive a nail on Good Friday or if a woman blows the fire with her apron she has the tinker's curse.
If you put the cream into your cup before you put in the sugar, you will remain an old maid.
Long ago when the "wee folk" had(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Patrick Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
