School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 372
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- (continued from previous page)9. It is considered unlucky to away milk or even to give a drink of milk away while a churning is in progress.
10. When a cow calves some people think it unlucky to give milk away before they have done a churning first.
11. It is unlucky to give away hatching eggs before tone has set a clutch of one's own first.
12. It is considered lucky to begin ploughing or digging potatoes or any other form work on Friday.
13. It is unlucky to sing during a churning.
14. A woman should not be the first to wish a person health to wear something new.
15. If a person gets first sight of the new moon through a window his luck is 'out' until the next new moon.(continues on next page)
