School: Caladh na Feirsde (roll number 13481/2)
- Location:
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0433, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)Some wouldn't cut hair on Monday or Thursday.
On May morning some people go and take water out of three different wells rising at sun-rise and milk other people's cows so as to lessen theirs and gain on their own.
If a man going to a fair in the early morning meets a woman first he fears bad luck and turns back. In exchanging hatching-eggs one is sometimes given for good luck, but superstitious people won't do that.
Rotten eggs are thrown into fields to cast ill-luck on other people.
Some people would not bring meat from a butcher's shop to a neighbours or cures from a chemist.
If a candlestick or a kettle or other things were borrowed for a wake they must not returned by the same people who take them.
When a bride is leaving her home when she is going to be married her mother sees that she doesn't meet any woman between the door and the car.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dorothy Stephens
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Charles Stephens
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
