School: Cúirt an tSéafraidh
- Location:
- Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 066
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- (continued from previous page)must take them off the bed again after the burial. When there is a straw on a hens leg someone is dying. You should never turn a horseshoe upside down in a wall, because all the luck would fall out of it. If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive. It is unlucky to meet a red-haired woman when going fishing. It is unlucky to make a friend a present of anything that cuts, for it cuts the friendship. It is unlucky to have three candles burning in one room. It is unlucky to look out of a window at a funeral. It is unlucky to see the new moon through a window. It is not right to carry a corpse through a field or short cut. See a pin and pick it up, and all your days you will have luck. See a pin and pass it bye and you may want a pin before you die. If a person fell inside a graveyard he would be the next to die. It is very unlucky to knock down a swallows nest. It is very unlucky to refuse a good price for anything.
- Collector
- Gerald Gregan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Richard Drake
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynamona, Co. Cork
