School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 050
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Moys
- XML Page 050
- XML “Lucky and Unlucky Days”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)It is unlucky to sweep out the house after sunset.
It is unlucky to throw out ashes on New Years day.
Saturday is a very unlucky day for starting any kind of work.
It is unlucky to get married on Saturday.
If you flit on Saturday it will not be long until your back again.
If you meet with any unlucky thing on Whit Monday you will be very unlucky the whole year after.
It is unlucky for a red haired man to come into the house on New Years day.
It is unlucky to have a sore on Good Friday.
It is unlucky to throw slop water out on New Years day.
If any animal is born on Whit Monday it will not live.
Some people going on their holidays go on Friday because it is a very lucky day.
Monday for wealth. Tuesday for health. Wednesday the best day of all. Thursday for crosses. Friday for losses and Saturday no day at all.
Monday is a lucky day for washing.(continues on next page)
