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 028
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- 1. If you had strangers on Monday you would have them all the week.
2. Not to visit a lios alone.
3. Not to take a bucket with the sign of milk in it to the well.
4. If you saw a sop hanging to a hen's tail it would be a sign of a funeral.
5. It is not lucky to have a woman go to her first child's funeral.
6. It is a custom to have water inside on little Xmas night because that was the night Our Lord changed the water into wine.
7. It is not right to go to a grave yard except you would be in a funeral.
8. If two hens were fighting it would be a sign of strangers.
- Collector
- Liam Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killowen, Co. Cork
