School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)

Location:
Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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  1. 1 It is not right to share milk on May Day or November's Day.
    2 The man of the house should not be let out with his pipe lit and the churning being made for there would be not be any butter in the milk
    3 It is not right to give out butter milk of the first churning after the cow has calved
    4 Nobody should go into a house and the people churning without helping for they would take the butter
    5 Nobody should pass the stable door and a person filing without saying god bless the work because the butter would go.
    6 People bless the cow with a coal, after calving so nobody could take away the milk.
    7 Other people tie a red string tp her tail
    8 When the churn is finished it is right to bless it.
    9 The cream that is gathered for churned if a person dies in the house
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Costello
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Catherine Costello
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Scotland, Co. Galway