School: Keeny
- Location:
- Keeny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 530
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- In a large number of counties in this country a lot of superstition are connected with certain days of the week being unlucky but I have spoken to two old people who are over seventy about this talk and they told me they heard their mother talking about unlucky days but never had any belief in it. I never heard a story about certain days of the week being good for curing ailments nor has anyone else in this district.
The McCaffertys told me that no day of the week was appointed by God to be unlucky.
He made seven days to be a week, six for working and the seventh(continues on next page)
