School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- 40. On May Day if anyone washed his or her face with the dew of the grass the sun would not burn him.
41. When you go into a house you should come the same door you went in, or some thing will happen to you.
42. If a person is frightened by seeing something put a grain of salt in his mouth and nothing will happen to him.
43. When you are going a journey it is unlucky to turn back if you forget something.
44. If oats is sown on the day of a full moon, it will be bad oats.
- Collector
- Rita Padden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowntleva, Co. Mayo
