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

School: Faythe (roll number 11361)

Teacher:
An tSr. Columcille
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 096

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 096

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: Faythe
  2. XML Page 096
  3. XML “Plants and Animals Which Children Fear”

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. Plants and Animals Which Children Fear

    Share Share Post
    Plants and animals which children fear.
    20th June 1938
    There is a belief current among children that certain plants and and animals are very dangerous to touch. For instance a little blue flower with a black dot in the middle is supposed to give those that touch it sore eyes. The children call these "sore eyes". Perhaps one would hear a big girl saying to her smaller sister "leave those mushrooms and "fairy fingers" where they are or the fairies will haunt you day and night".
    Children sometimes believe that if they touch a "hairy molly" it would creep into their bedrooms at night and steal them away. They would not kill a spider for fear that it would rain and they consider it very unlucky to kill a clock. Some chilren are afraid to touch a frog for it is said that frogs curse all children who touch them.
    Eily O'Donnell
    137 Faythe
    Wexford
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eily O Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Fhaiche, Co. Loch Garman