School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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- Local Games.
Written by, Maureen Smith Ballinacargy Drung P Cavan.
Collected from Michael Smith Ballinacargy Drung Cavan. The list of games I play are marbles, colours, hide and go seek, jig, fool in the middle and wants a corner and skittles.
The game I know how to play is colours. The children stand along in a row. Then there are four children called out. Two of them give out a colour to every child. The other two are called the Devil and the Angel. The person that out the colours says to the angelor to the Devil, "who comes here; and the Angel answers the Angel with the golden hair. Then the Angel guesses the colour of one person. That person runs away and the Angel and the Devil runs after her. Which ever of them catches her keeps her. Then the other (people) person asks who comes here and the Devil answers, the devil eith the pitchfork, then the devil guesses another persons colour, then the Angel and Devil runs after her and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellanacargy, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Michael Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellanacargy, Co. Cavan
