School: Páirc Íseal (C.) (roll number 4794)
- Location:
- Lowpark, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Dhumhnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)hands tied behind backs, try to get a bite of the apple and loud is the laughter when somebody gets a mouthful of candle instead. Alum was used in the same way as the nuts.
Eating an apple before a mirror at midnight - supposed to see your future husband
Going to a limekiln at midnight alone throwing in a ball of worsted and winding the other end of it, your future husband was supposed to hold the yarn.
Stealing Cabbage:-
Boys go out and steal cabbage, especially the cabbage of some cranky old miser and kick it along the roads. Girls go into some cabbage garden blind-folded and pull a head of cabbage, if the stalk is crooked they will have a crooked husband.
