School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)

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   It isn't right to put salt in milk that you are giving away to people.
   If you got bad meat from a shopkeeper, you shouldn't return it.
   You should never return salt or meat.
   It isn't lucky to walk under a ladder, as tis a sign of a disappointment.
   You should never go to a spring well for water after 12 o'clock at night.
   You should never black a passage.
   If you were going to a fair and met a brown-haired woman you should turn back, because she'ld take away all your luck from you.
   You should never put a car in a pathway by night.
   It isn't right to pick blackberries in a fort, because the fairies would haunt you.
   Whistling by night is the devil's delight,
   Singing by day, is God's play.
   If two people were walking together, and if you join them, it's unlucky to go between them.
   It isn't right to take a spancel from one cow stall to another.
   You should always buy something from a Gipsy, because she'ld take away your luck.
   You should always give an alms to a traveller.
   You should always burn a prayerbook that wouldn't be your own.
   It isn't right to count the people at a stations.
   It isn't right to count the strokes of a chapel bell.
   You should never cross a person lying down, because he'ld grow no more.
   It isn't lucky to interfere with a fort.
   If you kick a bucket by accident, and knock it, you'll find money under it.
   You should always turn the barrell if you went into a house while they are making butter, for fear you'ld take away the butter.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. Allman

   Gender

   Male