School: Cill Mhuire (B.), Lios Árd-achaidh
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 159
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- 1. It is unlucky to dye your wedding dress.
2. A bride should never wear pearls.
3. If you met a foxy woman in the morning you would have no luck for the day.
4. If you would not eat meat on St Stephen's Day you would not have fever for the year.
5.If there are two funerals going to the same graveyard and on the same day the first person to be buried will make the second person draw water to him.
6. If there is a bright spark in the candle which faced towards you it is a sign of a letter coming to you.
7. It is lucky to break glass the day of your wedding.
8. If you went out May morning and washed your face in the dew your face would be beautiful for the year.
9. If you go into a wake room there is usually a glass of holy water on the table and everybody who goes in sprinkles the holy water on the corpse to keep the evil spirit away.
10. If a baby will not cry when he is being baptised he will die.
11. If you eat three meals of nettles in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs J.J. Kelleher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmurry, Co. Cork
