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School: O' Connor Don

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Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 029

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    People say "It is not right to give out milk on May day." "If you come in one door and out another you will bring all their luck for the years with you." "If you come into a house and they churning, that you will bring the butter if you don't churn."
    "It is not right to praise a child unless you say God bless him."
    "It is not right to throw out anything on New Year's Day."
    "It is not right to give away milk or butter out of the first churning after the cow calving."
    "It is not right to put a first-born child in a new cradle."
    It is not right to leave cally for the fairies on November night.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eilís Ní Fhionnáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annagh, Co. Roscommon