Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0033
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- (continued from previous page)is to make 3 distinct efforts to break the other top by hitting it deliberately with the spear of his own. Should he fail to slip the down top recourse is had to "three stone pegs". They cast at the molly once more and the attacker is selected and he has liberty to do his utmost to slip his opponent's to by using a good big stone as a hammer and his own top as splitter. In this game the biter is often bitten
The modern shop top is no match for the home-turned and home-spurred crab or blackthorn whether as attacker or attackée. Ball in the Cap_ passim , is dócha.
- Sign of death in our family is the hearing of a heavy foot walk all round the house by night. Tis the fallen coming for his child. Wake-games: I think I described in first book which I filled. If not they are worth having recorded."
- "Moon: On seeing new moon for first time: "I see the moon and the moon sees me; God bless the moon and God bless me"
- Major: Cover the mirrors and all bright things; (put out the fire if you have time before you under the bed or into the wardrobe). Darken the house and finally you may close the windows if you have nerve enough! Idea being that light attracts whereas gloom repells."
- It is on May Morning that the butter is stolen: The woman with a stream and pulling a súgán through the water so as to raise foam and froth cries: "All for me! All for me!"(continues on next page)
