School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)other to keep them lucky for that year.It is not right to pen an umbrella inside in a house.If you were on a visit it is luckier to met a man first.Wherever you are going in a bicycle you should bless yourself before you go on.If you carry a spade or anything else in your shoulder going in to the house you will never grow a bit bigger.They say that if a person struck you with an alder stick you will not grow either.If the cows cleanings does not continue to come give her an eggshell in her food and all the cleanings will come right.It is not right to bury a cow's cleanings but fling it up in a thorn bush.It is not right to go to the fair without shaking holy water in yourself.It is not right to look out through the window at the moon or out through any glass but go up to the door and look at it.When the people are killing a hen for St. Martin's they spill the blood around the house and they would not sweep it away until it dries up itself and it might stay there for a few days.
