School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 057
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- (continued from previous page)across the pram afraid the fairies would come and take it and leave back a fairy child in its place.
(13) Never tell a death and you standing up in a house.
(14) If you break glass or delph or scatter salt you will have seven years hard luck.
(15) You should put a pinch of salt and a drop of holy-water on the churn before you would start to churn.
(16) You should put salt in a bucket the first time you would milk a cow after calving.
(17) You should cut a child's nails or hair until it is a year old.
(18) You should not open an umbrella in the house.
(19) You should never go in on the door with anything across your shoulder.
(20) If you went in under a stick or anything they say that you would never get any bigger except you came back under the same place again.
(21) You should not cut your hair in lent.
(22) You should not cut your nails after night.
(23) If you go into a house you should say "God bless the house" or "God save all here."(continues on next page)
