School: An Ghráinseach, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 12700)

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1. Saint Stephen's Day (continued)

   

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   divide the money at the cross roads and they go to their respective homes.

   

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2. May Eve - Pishogues

   

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   Pishogue making is an evil custom still remaining which was handed down to us from the Druids. This old custom was very wrong because the person who worked the "Pishogues" took away all the other person's luck. Nowadays people shake holy water on all their cattle to guard against Pishogues. Once upon a time there was farmer living in (Acres, Fermoy, Co Cork). One May morning when he went out he found a calf's leg behind the hay in the haggard and he found the dairy door smeared with butter. That year all his calves died and all his cows had a shortage of milk. When this same man went out to see his sheep a few years after on May morning he found a dead lamb by the ditch. He thought

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Curtin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Johnstown East, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr Daniel Curtin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   80

   Address

   Johnstown East, Co. Cork