School: Lios Ciúin (roll number 7829)
- Location:
- Liscune Lower, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál S. Mac Tighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0043, Page 0185
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- (continued from previous page)At a bon fire night everybody brings a coal from the bon fire and throws it into the tillage field in order to have a good crop.
People put a coal under the churn and shake salt on it so that the faries would not bring the butter.
If next you went into a house where a churning is going on you should always twist the churn or you would bring the luck of the butter.
You should not throw out water on New Years day or you would throw out the luck of the year.
If ever you were going on a journey you should never turn back or you would be unlucky on your journey.
If ever you saw a lagging funeral it is a sign that another would go that way in a short time.
- Informant
- Dan Carney
- Gender
- Male
