School: Cnoc an Bhile (C.), Dundroma (roll number 14427)
- Location:
- Knockavilla, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 259
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- (continued from previous page)2. Put salt in a stocking and tie the stocking round your neck. Wakes.
1. All the mirrors are covered with black cloth.
2. Snuff was given to the women and pipes to the men.
3. Clocks were stopped in the house.
4. When a person borrowed anything for the wake he damped it before sending it back.
5. When coming home from a funeral or wake people never go into any other house.
- 1. People do not leave their own house on Christmas night.
2. The youngest person in the house lights the Christmas candle and long ago the candle used be out in a turnip.
3. It is considered unlucky to meet a red haired woman the first thing on new Year's morning.(continues on next page)
