School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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- (continued from previous page)an out house for good luck. Long ago witches came to the houses and if the people were churning they could take the butter off the churn so people kept a piece of iron under the churn to prevent them from doing so. On the last day of April and the first of May people tie red strings on the cows tails to keep away the witches. When people are calling horses they say 'show! show! When they are calling the hens they say chuck! chuck! and when they are calling the geese they say leg! leg. We say pee! pee to call the turkeys and wheet! wheet! to call the ducks. We say much! much or gurry! gurry! to call the pigs. It takes a month to hatch geese eggs, a month to hatch turkey eggs, a month to hatch duck eggs, and three weeks to hatch hen eggs. Some people put black dots on hatching eggs, and others put an x on them.
- Collector
- Dorothy Harrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Church Hill, Co. Monaghan
