School: Taite Buí (Blackstaff)
- Location:
- Tattyboy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Mac Bhloscaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)To wear green is considered unlucky. When meeting a funeral one should turn and walk a few yards, with it, before continuing his journey.
If your right eye is itchy it is the sign of crying, but if it is your right eye, you will be laughing.To break a mirror brings seven years of misfortune.It is unlucky to hit an animal with a twig from Bortree bush.It is unlucky to hear the cuckoo for the first time in the year, while fasting.
If one sees a new moon through the window he is sure to die soon after.If one dreams of a wedding it is to be a wake, and if one dreams of a wake, it is a coming wedding.If one is going to a fair, and chances to meet a weasel it is bad luck.If one throws out dirty water, there are fairies about, and they will send you misfortune.One should not cut a lone bush as he may wither and die.If one cuts his nails at night he will see fairies.If one washes his face in other people's water he may be fighting with them unless he spits in it.(continues on next page)
