School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann (roll number 11307)
- Location:
- Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Cathasaigh
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- Folklore.Pishogues.1. A black cat is for good luck.2. A horse shoe also is for good luck and is often decorated and hung up as an ornament in the home.3. No present of a sharp thing like a scissors, a razor, a penknife, should be given. Those things cut love.4. Red-haired women are breakers of ill-luck, to those who meet them on the road.5. A single magpie is an omen of ill-luck.6. Those who pass under a ladder will never be married.7. Place a bit of the bride-cake under your pillow, and you will dream of your future husband or wife.8. If you enter a house where churning is in progress, you must lend a hand in the work. Otherwise the butter will not come easily, if at all.9. It is unlucky to take a fire out of the house. So if anyone comes in to light his pipe. He must light it inside.10. The umber 13 is to be avoided as number for a house. motor, number of visitors, wynds of hay in a field, etc.11. Dreams go by opposites. To dream of a(continues on next page)
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