1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Lucan (B.)

School: Lucan (B.)

Location:
Lucan, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
M. Mac Rois
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 246

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 246

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: Lucan (B.)
  2. XML Page 246
  3. XML “New Year's Night”

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. New Year's Night

    Share Share Post
    Every mother keeps a piece of the Christmas pudding and does not take down the holly or the ivy until after this day. Some people play this trick on New years Night. If a girl wants to know what kind her future husband will be, she must go out in the garden at twelve o clock that night and pull up a cabbage head and bring it into the house. If it is a long one he will be long, if it is a short one he will be short and if it is crooked he will be crooked. Whatever shape the cabbage is it is said the man will be the same.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. New Year (~74)
    Language
    English