School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)
- Location:
- Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Albert Flanagan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 243
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- Long ago there were various superstitions as regards Churning The women of ancient times never neglected to put a spark of fire under the churn for fear the fairies would bring the butter, and they would not let a spark of fire out of the house until the cream would be churned For instance if a man came in to light his pipe he would not be let go out until he did his share of the churning. The old folk were also of the opinion that if a strange hand was allowed to milk the cow on May Day and suppose the stranger milked the first can in the name of the Devil there would be no more milk for the Family it would be all secretly taken away by the fairies. There were three things that were never given away on May Day, Fire, Salt or milk because to give away any of these would mean bad luck for that year. It was also the custom when churning to put a pinch of [struck out: "cloth"] salt into the churn before the commenced to churn. All these superstitions are no longer(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael John Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Manor, Co. Roscommon
