School: Brughtheine (B.), Malla
- Location:
- Churchtown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Tighearnaigh
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“When the game called balours is being played all those playing stand by the wall.”
When the game called Colours is being played all those playing stand by the wall. Then some one is selected to be God and he calls another to be the Devil and he sends him some distance away.
The God gives the others names generally colours. He calls on the boy called the Devil and says,
All the birds in the air
All the fishes in the sea
Could not find out
Black (or red etc.) for me.
Then the Devil tries to pick out the one who has that name and if he does he gets him as a soldier but if he doesn't God gets hem and so on until all the players are divided into two armies. Then each army forms a line one behind the other. The two leaders God and the Devil catch hands and all pull. In that way they can prove which army is the strongest.
- Collector
- Patrick Irwin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annagh South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Annagh South, Co. Cork