School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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“The pig sees the new moon the first night...”
The pig sees the new moon the first night, the horse the second & the human being the third. Common belief about the moon here.
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- Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- Female
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- Múinteoir
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“Two women were minding my grandmother on her deathbed and in the middle of the night one stooped down to give her a drop of whiskey.”
Two women were minding my grandmother on her deathbed and in the middle of the night one stooped down to give her a drop of whiskey. At the same moment the latch was raised three times & one of the women said to the sick woman Did you hear the latch, Ma'am, I did says she and my husband's voice called my name three times Ellen Ellen Ellen. The husband left her a widow 40 years before & she never forgot to get a Mass said on the anniversary of his death & oftener. So the women were frightened out of their lives but she told them he was only calling her home. She died next day. Both women are now dead but I remember the whole affair myself.