School: An Choill Mhór
- Location:
- Cuilmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Frainc de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 95
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- (continued from previous page)or you will have no luck for the year.
Twelfth Night - Bake twelve cakes and eat as many as you can that nightChurning - keep lid and dash of old churn when getting a new one or the new churn will not last a year.
When finished churning bless churn with the dash. Put it round the churn three times.
When you are eating the butter and it is not nice never say a word or you will not have butter again.
The handle of the churn dash should be of ash so that the churn will be lucky
There was a man who had a churn that would not make butter. He kept churning for seven years and no butter came. A man came to him and wrote something on a paper and tied it to the churn. He moved the dash a few times(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frainc de Paor
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Spelman
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
