School: Dundalk (Dundalk Road Convent) (roll number 5387)
- Location:
- Dundalk, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Oliver
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0662, Page 064
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When a person says the word "rabbits" three times before they go asleep and three times when they waken they will get a pleasant surprise before the week is ended.
The first person that you meet on New year's day has red hair you are supposed to have bad luck though-out the whole year.If you are going on a journey you should always put the right foot formost.
Teresa Murphy.
(From her mother)
- If you forgot your umbrella, and you go back again for it do not leave the house without sitting down.If by a mistake you put two tea- spoons in a cup it is the sign of a party.To meet one magpie it is a sign of bad luck, two for good luck, three for a wedding and four for a wake.It is very bad luck to spill salt.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie Dooley
- Gender
- Female
