Abstract: Story collected by a student at An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin school (Curragh, Co. Tipperary) (no informant identified).
Original reference: 0572/4/126
School An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin [Vol. 0572, Chapter 0004]
County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Tipperary Schools
Piseoga [duchas:4865599]
Piseoga A straw on a hen's tail is a sign of a funeral. To meet a son on the road coming towards you, is a sign of good luck. If he turns back it is bad luck. If you take off the left shoe before the right, it is the sign of an accident. Long ago when the butter used to go against the people or that they could not make it, they put a coulter of a plough in the fire by the way that the fairies would be burning and that they would send back the butter. If a drop of candle grease fell into the cream you never could make butter of it. The old people used to stay up very late in the night watching the fairies. It was supposed that they used to milk the cows .A good crop of blossom on the hawthorn tree is the sign of a bad winter. A blue light in the fire is the sign of a storm.
Piseoga [duchas:4865600]
To see a dog licking grass is a sign of rain. When the swallows fly low it is a sign of rain. If a cat washes his right paw it is a sign of a visitor. If you disturb a cat when he is washing himself the first one he turns his eyes on will die soon. A fire lighting on one side is a sign that some one will leave the house that week. If it is raining and that the north of the sky clears it is a sign that the day will brighten up.
Original reference: 0572/4/126
Piseoga
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