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 494
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- (continued from previous page)her coal had quenched but the tailor took the tongs and cleared her out of the house. When the farmer's wife came in she went to the churn to take the butter out but to her surprise there was no butter in it. She asked the tailor was anybody in while she was out or who took the butter. He told her to look in the tub of water and to her amazement she saw the butter in a circle around the coal.29. You should not go to the well Christmas night.
30. If you saw a sop on a hen's tail it is the sign of strangers to the house.
31. If there was a person dead you should open the window.
32. You should not wash your hands in running water after milking cows.
33. It is the sign of bad luck to break a looking-glass.
34. You should not do anything to an old Lios (fort).
35. If you went out after twelve o'clock on Little Christmas night to a stream of water you would be turned into a black stone.(continues on next page)
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