School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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- 1. If you meet a red-haired woman on the road in the morning you will have bad luck for the rest of the day.
2. If you break a looking glass you will have seven years bad luck.
3. If you hit anyone with an Elder stick he will never grow any bigger.
4. If you walk on a rath at midnight you will hear delph rattling.
5. If the fire goes out in the morning you will have bad luck.
6. A person who never saw his father has the cure of a sore mouth.
7. The rough side of a cabbage or ivy leaf will draw any badness out of cuts, and the smooth side will heal them.- Collector
- Patrick O Brien
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