School: Cnoc an Chláraigh, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 14002)

Location:
Knockaclarig, Co. Cork
Teacher:
David Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 444

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  1. I. Touch wood and your wish ill come true.
    II. If you slept on grass on may morning the fairies would have power over you.
    III. It is wrong to turn up green on may day.
    IV. If Saint Sweetens day is wet 40 days rain after.
    V. The "kitchen should be" made tidy on retiring because dead return at night.
    VI. The feet water should not be kept inside at night.
    VII. People draw water from every well around in may morning.
    VIII. On may eve a lot of (of) salt is shaken on the butter so they would have a lot of butter for the year.
    IIIX. Get an empty plate on may morning put an eart worm into it and cover the plate and worm with flour and at sunset in the evening you would see the initials of the person you would be married to.
    IIX On snap apple night when peeling the apple rind in one whole ring And throw it over your shoulder you would get the initials of the person you were to marry.
    IV. If at first time you hear a cuckow with right ear raise your right foot and you
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