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School: Dunally (roll number 12752)

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Doonally, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Florence Egan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 132

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  1. Superstitions (continued)

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    To cross knives is the sign of a fight in the house.
    If your knee is itchy, you will kneel on strange ground.
    To spill salt is bad luck.
    If your right eye is itchy you will be laughing, and your left eye to be itchy you will be crying.
    See a pin, pick it up, all the day you will have good luck, but meet a pin and pass it by, some part of the day you will surely cry.
    To see a black cat is good luck.
    If a swallow builds it's nest near a house, it is very lucky.
    Written by-: Kitty Rooney,
    Faughts,
    Sligo.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Rooney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Faughts, Co. Sligo