School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 371
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- 1. Two people washing their hands in the same water spit in the water so that they will not quarrel.
2. When a turf or a coal falls from the fire someone is about to come in.
3. It is considered unlucky to let a stranger light his pipe from a burning turf, or to allow a lighten coal to be taken out of the house on May-day.
4. Any one who gives away milk on May-day, the churning will go against them, and the butter will be scarc the whole year.
5. To meet a flat-footer person is lucky but to meet a red haired woman unlucky.
6. Giving money away on New Year's day is considered giving one's luck away.
7. Foxglove is called fairy-thimbles. If a person put one of the blossoms on his finger, he would die before a year.
8. Some superstitions people in this district put a ring or a sovereign or something with gold in it into the can before milking a cow that has freshly calved. They consider it lucky.(continues on next page)
