School: Termon
- Location:
- Termon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0980, Page 077
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- (continued from previous page)This is is also another pistrog: it is said that if you meet a dog when setting out on a journey is very lucky or even if you meet a donkey but you must turn the donkey around on the road in the opposite direction. A pony is also counted lucky but like the donkey you must reverse him on the road.
Meeting a red-haired woman is counted very unlucky.
If you find a horse shoe on the roadside it is very lucky you must bring it home and hang it up over the doorway. But you must hang it up with the closed side down so as your luck won't fall out.
Should the rooster crow late in the evening some Ill-luck will befall the house at which he crows.
If he stands on the doorstep and crows(continues on next page)
