School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- (continued from previous page)brings bad luck.It is unlucky to bring a corpse a short-cut.If you dig a rath you will have bad-luck.People say that if you walk through a door with a spade on your shoulder you would never grow any bigger.People say the first person a cat looks at after washing her face is going to die.People say it is bad luck to open an umbrella in a house.It is not right to buy a broom in May; it would sweep the family away."Spill salt, spill sorrow."Getting married on Monday for health.
Getting married on Tuesday for wealth.
Getting married on Wednesday best day of all.
Getting married on Thursday for losses
Getting married on Friday for crosses
Getting married on Saturday no day at all.If you throw out fire ashes on Monday you will throw all your luck away.To see a fire lighting to one side, it means a removal from the house.The skimming of a well on May-day morning is supposed to take the milk and butter from some persons dairy for the year.(continues on next page)
