School: An Mhágh Bheag, Droichead Banndan (roll number 11025)
- Location:
- Mawbeg East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Uallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0315, Page 027
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- 1. Long ago the Irish people had an old custom to go around from house to house singing the wren on St. Stephen's Day.
2. Not to burn a deck of cards but to bury them.
3. To stop the clock when a person dies.
4. When a person dies not to throw out the water they have washing him until the corpse would be buried.
5. To take u the sweeping in a paper and put it under the bed until the person is buried.
6. Not to ever put an open umbrella over your head inside a house.
7. Not to ever go under a ladder but go around i when it is up against a house.
8. If you met a foxy woman on the road to the fair you would not have any luck.
- Collector
- Vera Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyglass, Co. Cork
