School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)4 If a pigeon comes to your door
5 To see a pin and pick it up , all day long you will have good luck
6 Not to wash your hands in running water after milking cows
7 To see light at night
8 To keep your wedding ring
9 If you turn your stocking or any of your garments inside out accidentally and leave it so for the day
- 1 If you went into a house while churning was going on you should take a twist out of the churn so that you could not take away the butter
2 By putting meat and eggs in a garden you can take the year's crops
3 If a man's calf died and he put him in another man's land he would take away his cattle
4 If you light a match over a bird's nest which was robbed, the person who robbed it will get warts
5 When eggs and meat were found in a garden or meadow, they were burned on the roadside, and the first person who passed by was by was the person supposed to have worked the "Pisheogues"
