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 451
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“On November night boys and girls listen at doors about 9 or 10 oclock to heare a name.”
On November night boys and girls listen at doors about 9 or 10 oclock to heare a name. The belief is that the first name he or She hears will be the name of his or her future wife or husbandOn November night beans are put down on the hearth one for a boy and one for a girl and according [?] they get hot. They hop about. If they stay together it is a sign that couple will get married but if one hop away they wont be married.They get 3 saucers they put a ring into one water in nother. and earth in the third. Each person is blindfolded and led to the table Whichever saucer the person fate. The ring denotes marriage. The water that he or she will cross the sea. The earth denotes death in the near future(continues on next page)