School: Tara Hill (roll number 13689)

Location:
Kilcavan, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Fhlannchadha
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  1. Women used put needles in baby's clothes or cap to keep the fairies from taking them.
    They took brides too sometimes. On one occasion a man lost his bride in this manner and he went to the local fairyman to help him to get her back. The fairyman told him to go to a certain gap through which all the fairies would pass at the dead hour of the night. He would see his bride amongst the last of them. He was to provide himself with a knife and as she passed by on horseback he was to cut the saddle girth with one slash. If he failed to cut it with one effort something dreadful would befall himself. The man did as he was advised, succeeded, and won back his bride.
    From
    Miss Loughnan Tara Hill - Born 1845
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Miss Loughnan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gorey, Co. Wexford
  2. Babies
    New born babies were evil until they were brought to the Church.
    They never smiled until after "Christening."
    A child that does not cry when being baptised will not live.
    Women married if they meet a hare should split their petticoat.
    Death
    When a person is dying the window of the room is opened + holy water is sprinkled from the soul out to the yard.
    Bean Sidhe
    She followed the Canavans and the Noctors.
    Dead Coach :
    The dead coach travelled from Ballinacarrig, Gorey, to Kilgorman graveyard.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.