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Did you know? If a pregnant woman should spy a hare, she was to make a hole in her vest (everyone wore a vest then!). This was to ensure that the child she was carrying wouldn't be born with a hare-lip.
On New Year's Day, nothing - not even the dust sweepings, not the contents of the chamber pot, not the ashes from the fire - would be thrown out of the house. You daren't meet a red-haired woman or man on that day. Rita Flynn of Forkhill tells me of a time in her youth that a red-haired man called to their home at that time of year. She remembers that he was a military deserter, on-the-run. That was no bother. The colour of his hair was. A few days later an oul' cow died. Of course he was to blame! Now REMEMBER... NOT TO turn a garment if accidentally put on back to front to whistle on a boat, a woman shouldn’t whistle or a hen crow put red and white flowers together in a vase fill in a spring well put a sock and shoe on until the other foot's socked strike a cow with an elder stick strike a person with a ragweed turn back having started a journey meet, or sit down in a group of thirteen share washing water set an even number of eggs under a clocking hen ‘flit’ on a Saturday allow the fire to burn on one side only AND To break a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck It is unlucky for a picture to fall off a wall for your right hand to itch (left hand, money is on its way!) to turn up the number thirteen for a break to come in a funeral cortege for an infant NOT to cry at a Christening. |
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