School: Doire na Groighe (B.), An Bhán-tír (roll number 7450)
- Location:
- Dernagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Caisil
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0359, Page 228
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- (continued from previous page)bits of lighted candles and two apples were fastened on them. The cross was hung from the ceiling or mantle-tree and each person tried to snap the apple with her or his mouth from the spinning cross. They used to put nuts in the red ashes giving each nut a person's name. The nut that jumped first was the first person to get married. They melted lead and poured it through the wards of a key into a basin of water and then they told the person's fortune by the shapes of the lead. They placed bits of paper with a person's name in each. On each they put a little meal, then the cock was brought in and swung around by the legs to make him drunk. He was placed in the middle of the ring the first paper of meal he would pick was the person that would get married first. They used to have three basins on the table one holding water one a ring and one with earth. A person was blindfolded and he or she walked to the basins. If he but his hand on the ring basin he was soon to be married—if it was on the earth basin he was soon to die and if it was on the water basin he was to cross the sea.
- Collector
- John Morley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenskeha East, Co. Cork
