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School: Scoil N. Bríde, Kilmaine

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Kilmaine, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Maighréad, Bean Uí Ghliasáin
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    The people believed long ago that if a person died out of the house and they [?] have cream gathered for a churning they say it would not be right to churn it, so if such a thing happened the cream was gone to loss, if they churned it they believed no butter would come on the milk for five or six churnings after. Sometimes all the clothes would not want to be washed after a persons death and instead of that they would wet the four corners.
    When a coffin is felt outside on two chairs before it is taken to the chapel the old people would twist the chairs three or four times and then knock them one side and leave them that
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Meta Ní Glíosáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmaine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mac Ó Glíosáin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmaine, Co. Mayo