School: Lower Warren (roll number 7793)
- Location:
- Warren Lower, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Liam Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 299
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“In the school district: 1) It is not lucky to put out ashes on Monday or Sunday.”
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14. It is not lucky to light more than three cigarettes with one match.
15. It is not lucky to let the rinsing water of milk vessels run away on the stream.
16. It is not lucky to give a coal of fire on a May morning.
17. It is not lucky fo a person to enter the house where churning is going on and not to put their hand to the dash.
* Some people bring the butter in, more bring it away with them (by their presence)
18. It is not lucky to break a looking glass
19. leaving a pair of shoes on the table denotes a row
20. To wash one's feet in the dew of a may morning devotes?
21. If a corpse does not become stiff it denotes another death in the family.
22. To pass a sow with her back side to you is unlucky.
23. To kill a spider is not lucky
24 to be married in May is considered not lucky