School: Dromlogach Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10908)

Location:
Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eighneachán Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 486

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  1. 1. It is good luck when a robin comes near you.
    2. Shake salt on the cow tracks May Eve.
    3. Put a spoon into the cream when thunder is there.
    4. When people want to do harm to other people they put eggs into the hay in the meadow.
    5. Long ago there used to be two women swinging a snare rope over their head over a spring and they saying "All for me". And there did a man come on the scene and they threw away the rope. The man put the rope up in the loft and the following year the man got the rope and it full of butter.
    6. The women long ago used to be looking for a man's land to put under the cream tub to make more butter.
    7. If a girl tears her veil when she is getting married she would have no luck afterwards.
    8. If a cow slings - to throw the sling into the next farm and all the other man's cows would sling.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Coileán
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14