Among the unlucky things it is unfortunate for a stranger to count the number of one's sheep, cattle, or children.
. . .This spirit was an innocent supernatural visitor that frisked and gambled about the cattle pens. Armed with a pliable reed she would switch all who annoyed her by using obscene language or who neglected to leave her a portion of the dairy product.
It is unlucky for an odd number to sit at a table such as 7, 9, 11 and 13, and unless changed one of the party is sure to die within that year.
It is unwise to drink the health of a company or to serve them round a table except from left to right as the sun goes . . .
To catch the first sight of a new moon through a window will bring ill luck.
The turning up of the horn of the new moon indicates dry weather. (Somebody have a look at the new moon tonight, we could use some dry weather, but not through a window!)
Cattle, sheep and pigs must not be slaughtered in the wane of the moon because the meat would shrink in cooking.
A more common form of the TAGHAIRM was that of selecting some person and wrapping him in the warm side of a newly slain ox or cow and then placing him at full length in the wildest recess of some lovely waterfall. Here he remained for some hours and whatever impression was made upon his mind that was supposed to be the solution of the question asked.
