School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

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1. Superstitions (continued)

   

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   should not get married within a year.
   Two brothers or two sisters should not marry within a year.
   You should never lend anything on May morning or you should not go near water for nine days before or after Whit-Sunday. Both those days are looked upon as unlucky days and people born on Whit Sunday are supposed to be vicious.

   

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2. Festivals

   

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   On St. Stephen's day little boys go round with a wren in a box which they have decorated with coloured papers. At each house they say "Dreoilín, dreoilín rí na n-éan Is mór é a mhuirín, is beag é féin

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary A. O' Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patsy Ausboro

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   84

   Address

   Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo