School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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- (continued from previous page)cattle the first person you met went back three steps with you for good-luck.
(53) It is unlucky to begin work in a Tuesday morning.
(54) If you washed your face in the dew in May morning you had not any freckles that Summer.
(55) If you dug a lone bush the fairies came to your house that night.
(56) If you see a rainbow in the sky between two townlands there is someone going to die.
(57) If the cock is on the door there is someone going to die.
(58) If you see a straw hanging from the hen's tail.
(59) If the cat washes his face there is a stranger coming.
(60) If a knife falls there is a woman coming.
(61) If a fork falls there is a man coming.
(62) If your left eye is itchey you are going to be crying.
(63) If your right eye is itchey you are going to be laughing.
(64) If the heart of your left hand is itchey you are going to(continues on next page)
