School: Duleek (B.) (roll number 6554)
- Location:
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0682, Page 275
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- There are many things which the people of Duleek call unlucky. When a person sees a magpie on the road, they say it is for bad luck. They say"One for bad luck,
Two for good luck,
Three for a wedding,
Four for a wake.When people hear a cock crowing in the middle of the night it is a sign of bad luck.
One time a man heard a cock crowing for five nights in succession, and on the fifth night one of the people of the house died.
Another unlucky thing to hear is a robin singing after dark, because it brings great hardship to those that hear it.
Long ago if a man was going to a fair, and he to meet a red-haired woman on the road, he would turn back, because he would say that he would have nothing but bad luck at the fair.
If a glass fell on the ground it is a sign of bad luck for seven years.
People say when they spill salt that there will come bad luck, and sorrow.
When people see a new moon, they go out, so as not to see it through the window because if they see it through glass it will bring bad luck.
If a hen comes in with a straw on its tail(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séumas Ó Gormáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Liam Ó Gormáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Duleek, Co. Meath
