School: Model School, Clonmel
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Ella M. Adams
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- Superstitions October 1938
Here are some of the local superstitions heard around Clonmel.
If a very beautiful small flower names "Burn the House" is brought into a house to house will go on fire. Hawthorn is also supposed to be unlucky in a house.
If an umbrella is put up in a house it will bring bad luck.
Some people would not allow three lights to be let in a house under any conditions.
If a person walks under a ladder leaning against a wall he will never grow any bigger.
If one wears a green dress it is supposed to bring bad luck.
If toadstools are brought into a house the fairies are supposed to abuse the person that picked them until he puts the toadstools back.
There is a rhyme about magpies being lucky and unlucky. Here it is
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth .- Collector
- Jessie Sparrow
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary