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)If you lay your hand on a dead person's forehead you will forget about the person who is dead.
Some say that if you saw a spider on a wall you would get a letter the next day.
It is said that if you see a star falling you should wish for something.
It is said that if someone belong to you is getting married and you get a piece of a wedding cake and if you get some paper and wish for three things and write them down on the paper and put it in under your pillow for three days and three nights and you would get your wish.
It is said that if you carried cards in your pocket it would be very unlucky.
To knit on a Sunday is bad luck.
If your ear was hot someone would be talking about you.
To wash yourself in the May dew would make you look very handsome.
If you see a tea leaf floating in your tea it means that a visitor is coming.
Some people say that if you killed a robin it would be bad luck.
To cross two knives means a quarrel in the house.
To break a fairy mushroom is said to be unlucky.
If you see seven grey horses it is said to be unlucky.
If you had a wart on your hand you would get a snake(continues on next page)
