School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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- (continued from previous page)a bride's cake you will dream of your future wife or husband.
(73) Not to put out the ashes after dark.
(74) Not to bring milk out after sunset without putting salt in it.
(75) Not to eat bread outside after sunset.
(76) Never to sweep the floor out on the street at night.
(77) To burn a tea bag if there is a (hound on it) piece left in the middle of it. you would get a letter
(78) If a corpse is brought a near way to the church someone in the same house will die.
(79) If the cat scrapes wood it is the sign of a wind storm(continues on next page)
