School: Muine an Mheadha
- Location:
- Monivea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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“It is an old custom when a woman would be setting eggs to make the sign of the cross on the eggs with a burned stick...”
It is an old custom when a woman would be setting eggs to make the sign of the cross on the eggs with a burned stick and she would nut something on her head called a top knots so that there would be chickens in the eggs.
It is an old saying that if you fell in the grave-yard you would die a week after.
If a knife fell it would be the sign of a stranger.
If the lace of your shoe was opened then would be someone thinking of you.
- Collector
- Annie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Joe Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Julia Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Vincent Hoban
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Monivea, Co. Galway