School: Mianaigh (roll number 10565)
- Location:
- Moyny Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlis Ní Shúilleabháin
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- 1. Bring in a May-bush on May morning so as to have good luck all the year.2. Be first to draw water from the well on May morning.3. Bring in a bottle of May water and leave it in the dairy all the year.4. Never be the first to raise smoke on May morning.5. Never give away milk on May morning or your butter will be taken.6. Never give away the vessel in which you hold cream, on May morning.7. Cow houses should be locked on the night of May eve.8. A sop dragging from a hen foretells a funeral. 9. When a funeral leaves a house do not shut the door until the people of the house return. 10. When a funeral leaves a house turn the chairs and upset the bed on which the corpse lay so that the dead person would not return.(continues on next page)
