School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)on that day either. He says that he heard there was an unlucky Thursday in every seven years and as nobody knows which Thursday it is, nothing should be begun on that day.When people are removing from one house to another, they always do so on Friday, though in a district about five miles from here, they remove on any other day rather than Friday. The rhyme referring to wedding-days is also well known in this district : -Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
and Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses
and Saturday no luck at all.Yet, I have known people who were married on Thursday and Saturdays and they seem to be as lucky as those married on other days.Nobody digs a grave on Monday because, it is said, if it were dug, graves should be dug every day of that week. Money is not paid out on Monday either, or it is also said that money would have to be paid out on the six other days of that week. Travelling is also deferred from Monday to any other day, but I do not know the reason of this."The days of the old cow" is the name given(continues on next page)
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