School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Máire de Paor Dd. Allman
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- (continued from previous page)You should never take a cat from an old house to a new house.
You should never take a clock from an old house to a new house.
You should never take anything that would be hanging in an old house, into a new house (e. g. pot-hangers).
You should never put a sow and a litter of bonhams at the right side of the house.
You should always leave sugar in the sugar-bowl by night.
It isn't right to build a new house in an old passage.
It isn't right to build a new house in the site of an old fort.
It isn't right to use stones from a fort in building a new house.
If there was salt spilled in a house, there would be a fight in the house that day, but if you threw a pinch of it over your left shoulder, there would not.
It isn't right to have three people of the same name in the one house.
If there was anyone sick in the house, you should never keep a press locked.
It isn't right for the foot of a bed to be turned towards the door.
Drive a horse-shoe at the back of the door of your house, to keep away the fairies.
You shouldn't have three candles lighting at the same time in a house.
You should never put your bag on the treadle of a spade, inside in a house.
If you had waterlilies growing round your house, you would have delicate lover.
One should never read their fortune on the threshold of a door.
If you had shamrock growing round your house, you'ld have a lot of love.
It isn't right to leave boots on a table by night.
It isn't right for two persons to sleep at the foot of a bed.
It is lucky to leave some food on the table by night.
A girl that wears a fur should never put it in a wardrobe or a drawer.(continues on next page)
