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School: Muine an Mheadha

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Monivea, Co. Galway
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Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 068

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    Long ago the old people used to make a cake and hang it up to the ceiling for a year or two. When a year or two would be passed they used to take it down and wind the flax around it for weaving.
    Another custom was on Novembers night the young girls used to hang a head of cabbage from the ceiling and it used to be left there until morning and the first man that came in in the morning was her husband.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Delia
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Morrow
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Monivea, Co. Galway