School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- 1. If you put a stick on your shoulder inside a house you'll never again grow.
2. If you go under a briar with the two ends growing you give your body and soul to the devil.
3. Spit on a Hairy Molly i.e a centipede and you'll have good luck.
4. On seeing one magpie; say: -
"Bad luck to you, good luck to me
Fly away back and bring back your comrade to me"
5. If you see a white horse spit out and after seeing 100 white horses and spitting out on each occasion you have your with (or you'll find money under his hoof)
6. Say "God bless it" to everything living except the dog and cat
7. Unlucky dreams: about rat or bull
Lucky: nuisance:
8. Cut a dearg-daol into 7 pieces and you get 7 sins off your soul
9. My grandmother (Mrs Doyle Slievecahal age 88) said that a man went into a house long ago one night and he called out the man of the house. When they came out they looked up at the sky and there did a light shine in the sky then there did soldiers started fighting. There was civil war soon after. The man who called to the house was a very sly tramp. (John Doyle Slievecathail).
10. Jump over a baby and the baby'll grow no more.
11. Walk under a man's legs and he'll grow no more.
12. Castor sugar drives away "clogs" (clock-beetles).
13. Never carry a horse and a foal in the Kitchen door (or through any door at the same time).
14. Don't ever look back at night.
15. "There was a sparcel carr'd out of a house May Eve and the cow who used to be sparcelled by it never had a drop of milk any more. (T. Enright Coolmaleen - got from g. mother M. Mahony).
16. The old people used rather see anything than a greyhound at night.(continues on next page)
