School: Mainistir Mhuigheó (B)
- Location:
- Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Padraig Ó Cuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0100, Page 044
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- The usual name for superstition. The following are those remembered in Mayo Abbey.
Never throw out the water on New Years day or else luck of old year would go.
When people would be churning they used to put a grain of salt into the churn and a coal of fire under it also a few pieces of iron to help on the butter.
If anybody came into the house, when a woman would be churning he or she would help with the churning or butter would not come on the milk.
When a cow would calf the man that owned her used to tie a red string on her tail and put a quenched coal around her body three times, People would not give.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Walter Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
