As recorded in the Duchas.ie School's Collection...
Superstitions are still practised in Skerries by the older people.
Some of them are:-
- If you look into the mirror at night you will see the devil.
- If you leave your shoes on the table you will have bad luck all the year.
- Not to throw out water on All Souls' Night or to go into the graveyard after twelve o'clock.
- If a person has a moat or cairn on his land and digs it up it is said that the 'good people' will haunt him till he dies.
- Another superstition is if a person's name has and 'O' or 'Mac' before it, such as O'Brien or Mac-Adam, they are ghosted by a Bean Sidhe (Banshee).
