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)To meet a greyhound at night is unlucky.
If the palm of your hand was itchy it means you will get money.
If you hear an ass braying a tinker dies.
If you see a red speck on a candle you will get a letter.
To throw a tooth over your shoulder is bad luck.
If you enter a house where churning is going on you should always give a few turns to the churn or you will bring away the butter.
If you get a present of an animal or a fowl etc, you should always give a coin in exchange or you'll take the giver's luck.
If you change the building of a house someone in the house will die.
If you had a crowing hen you should kill it or you will have bad luck.
Sparks flying towards you from a burning bag means hardship.
Sparks flying towards you from a burning coal means money.
A cock crowing at midnight foretells a death.
If you go on a journey and if you turn back for something you forgot you will have bad luck.
If you see a cat washing her face it means a visitor to the house.
If you give a person a present of a purse you should always put a coin in it or that person will have bad luck.
If your birthday is on the 1st of April you are an April fool.(continues on next page)
