School: Drom Liath, Macroom (roll number 1687)
- Location:
- Dromleigh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)Horse-shoe
If a horse-shoe is hung inside the door, turned downwards, the luck will remain inside. If it is turned up the luck will go out.
Pins in a card-player's coat
If four-pins are put in a card-player's coat the luck will remain with him.
Mag-pies
If one mag-pie is met in the morning, the person who met it, will have bad luck for the day. If he meets two mag-pies he will have goof luck.
Fire.
It is not right to light a fire on May-morning unless some other person has lit it first.
Beauty
If a person washed his face in the dew May-day he would be beautiful for ever afterwards.
Snails.
If a person met a foxy or black snail on the morning of May-day the colour of the person;s husband or wife would be either black or foxy.
- Collector
- Eugene Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
