School: Shelbaggan Convent
- Location:
- Shelbaggan, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr M. Breandán
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- (continued from previous page)Signs of Bad Luck1. To break a mirror
2. to spill salt
3. to see one magpie
4. to let fall a comb
5. to have to light the fire first on May morning
6. to meet a red haired woman on your way to a fair
7. to open an umberella indoors
8. to sit on the corner of a table
9. to whitewash in May
10. to see five magpies or even four
11. to hear the cuckoo for the forst time with the left ear.
12. to build a new house on a path.
13. to hear the cock crow at eleven oclock at night.
