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School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)

Location:
Mell, Co. Louth
Teacher:
E. Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0678, Page 068

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  1. An Old Superstition about the Dead

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    If a dead person owes any debts he comes back and appears to somebody and asks them to pay for them. They tell anything that is troubling them ask people to relieve them. When a person is buried on a wet day it is a sign that he will be happy and a bad sign if it is dry and sunny. A bad sign to slip beside a grave if he falls and touches the dug clay he will buried himself in a year.
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  2. May Day Customs

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    People bring the Summer in before the sunrise on May Day morning. If the sun rises before they bring it in they wont get their share of the summer that year. On that account they have a person watching the break of day to be up and green branches to bring in. When the morning breaks the watcher
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. May (~639)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Treasa Wall
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Mell, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mr Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Mell, Co. Louth