School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
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- (continued from previous page)your future husband will be rich. If the snail be almost out of the shell your future husband will be poor.
- People eat a lot of boiled eggs on Easter Sunday morning because the breaking of the shell signifies the rolling back of the stone from Our Lords tomb.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Síodhacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bedford, Co. Kerry
- People kill a goose or other animal on Saint Martin's Day. The blood is then put in a cloth and the people hang it up on the rafters. On the next Saint Martin's Day the blood is thrown away and another goose or other animal is killed. The blood is put in a cloth and is then hung up in the rafters.
