1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Koilmore

School: Koilmore (roll number 14115)

Location:
Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Murchadha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 148

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0099, Page 148

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Koilmore
  2. XML Page 148
  3. XML “Pisreoga”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Pisreoga

    Share Share Post
    (1) The people believe that it is not right to burn playing cards, because the devil would have them.
    (2) If a person sneezed and if some body did not say God bless you it is believed that the fairies would bring that person.
    (3) The people believed that if they took all the milk from a cow the fairies would bring her.
    (4) The people believe that if they gave away a goose egg they would have bad luck.
    (5) The people believe that if they threw out dirty water at night they would have bad luck.
    (6) The people believe that if they did not put milk in a bowl near the fire for the fairies they would have bad luck.
    (7) If the people did not say the Lord have mercy on
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Waldron
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cartronnacross, Co. Mayo