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When [?] in the Blackwater makes noise it is a sign of rain and when the Poll at the Yellow Cliff makes noise it is a sign of fine weather.
When Ford Zealabain (Galcine was [?] to Henry Dggar Widdleman) manes noise it is a sign of rain
When the flies disturb the cattle rain is coming.
When the frog turns black rain is coming, when the frog is yellow fine weather may be expected.

When Red patches appear in the sky a rainbow appears in the sky the curlews are heard screaming
Black clouds roll over the sky
the crickets sing sharply
the crows perch on the sunny side of the fence to fisc their feathers.
the people with rheumatism feel their pains getting worse.
a crow perches quickly on the ground the pigs snort and jump the cat sleeps near the fire the wind is noising very much through the trees and along rivers a blue light is seen
the wag tail hops in the yard

setting. When the fish jump in the river for flies the cement floors or walls get damp
Black frogs are seen in meadows
the ducks quack loudly
the dogs eat grass
the crows fly in flocks
the soot falls
fog comes down on bahir lake in the morning and all the other mountains are clear
White stripes are seen in the sky the hills appear near or when they are covered with mist the dust in the roads blowing North. the cattle are seen gadding.
the crows and swallows fly near the ground

For names of those who supplied te following see Index 8 pages back (Local Cures)
Signs of rain: It is a sign of rain when the sun appears red when setting, the smoke turns down the chimney, the sheep come down the hill, the sear-gulls fly over the land, the goats face towards the north, the pismires swarm on the road, the midges fly over the little streams, A Marork-le-gaovie in the sky, the south-west wind blows, a halo appears around the moon,the clouds known as wool-sacks moving quickly the sun is pale when when the horse strikes the gound with his hoof. Ants fly in swarms. [?] fly low.

Whitlow: Cow-dung was used as a plaster for whitlow.
Worms in a calf: Cleas-na-Peisce was made with a cord in which was put two certain knots in such a way that when pulled they would open. This was done nine times and each time (and) the calf was hit with the cord and then the worm dies.
Pharcy in horses: It was cured by certain men with a charm.
A plant Known as Dremire Mure was used as a [?]
A Black-eye was cured with cow's liver
Watercress boiled was used as a poultice for an abscess in the neck.
A [?] in the eye was cured with a gold ring or with the Fasting spittle.
Sulphur was taken dry as a cure for itch and the sores were washed until [?]
Ringworm was cured by a "quack" doctor who was either the seventh son of the seventh son or was born on Good Friday and was baptized on Easter Sunday.
This "quack" doctor could also cure pharcy (?) in horses. The most outstanding one of there in the district was Doctoreen Dimeen of Clydach-he was born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter Sunday.

Herbs for a sore head: Sew ivy leaves together and roast and apply them as a plaster to the head
Obstruction: Apply hot covers (of pots) wrapped in flannel to the side.
Lumps in the throat: Pound white resin and wrap it in a cloth and out it to the throat.
Rheumatism: Put a large turf fire down and when it had reddened spread it on the floor and remove it when the floor is hot. Get a "heart" of green rushes and put a thin sheet on the rushes and lay the patient on it and cover him with two blankets and leave him there until he has sweated.
Pains in the bones: Turnpentine from a tree is good for them.
Indigestion: A spoon of soda put into a cup of water and drunk is a cure for indigestion.

Plants for a burn-a glass of [?] Oil, a glass of Lime-water a glass of cream mixed well in a bottle until the cream almost turns to butter.
Bolt Whiskey [?]
Olive Oil and Lime Water (Patrick [?] 85 years).
Lime-water was used as a cure for a burn.
Plasters for a Sore: To get a candle rusting in a brass candle-stick and melt in with a piece of soap and put them on the sore. To melt soap and sugar and put them on the sore.
Herbs for a sprain: Boil a plant called Marsh Mallows and apply it to the sprain
This plant was also good for pains in the legs.
Herbs for a bad stomach: To boil a plant called [?] or dandelion and draw it like tea and drink it fasting in the morning
This plant was also good for a headache when used similarly
Herbs to stop vomiting: Boil a herb called [?] and drink the liquid made from it.
A spoon of soda put into hot water and drunk was a cure for vomiting.

Sore Eye: Goat's milk or black tea was used to wash it.
Tea and white copperice was left draw like tea, strained through clean muslin cothand then applied with a quill
A person's fasting spittle
Sore-Throat: Gargle it with salt and water.
The fox-glove or fairy-thimble when made into broth was used as a cure.
Twist the stocking of the left leg around the throat the part which covered the shin-bone to be placed over the sore part
Headache: Rub it with white vinegar
A spoon of salts in half a cup of water.
Burn: Rub the white of an egg to it.
Lick a lizzard and then lick the burn.
Soda was placed on it.

Boild: Soap and sugar were used as a plaster.
Spread a Good Friday egg (one laid on Good Friday) on top and apply it to the (bile) boil.
Get a herb called "[?]" on the bank of a river and wash the roots well and pound them. The patient should go half a mile from the house for fear the germ would smell it. When the patient would return the herb was put to the boil.
Chicken-weed was also a cure.
Corns: Boiled ivy leaves were rubbed to them as a cure. The skin of bacon was rubbed to them.
To walk on the dew in the early morning was supposed to be a cure.
Welts: They were bathed in alum and washing-soda mixed and boiled
They were also bathed in hot-water

was supposed to cure chincough.
To meet a white horse was also a cure.
Measles: Milk and sheep's dropping drunk by the person affected.
Yellow-Jaundice: Sheep's dropping and seven vermin from a stranger person with half a pint of whiskey left by the fire to draw like tea and then drunk was a cure.
To drink black tea and porter and to eat no bread made with milk.
Black tea and loaf bread and the white of an egg in water was a cure for yellow-jaundice
To drink cool tea without milk or sugar.
Thrush: To wash the mouth with ginger, vinegar, brown sugar, saffron and half a pint of whiskey mixed to-gether
The mouth was washed with saltpetre.
Honey was put into the mouth.
Dandelion boiled and strained and mixed with vinegar
Propan of a goose-suck tea through it.

of a stone containing water.
Toothache: Put a piece of tobacco into the tooth.
Pepper, salt and soot mixed together were used and saltpetre was also used.
A frog's leg was put under it as a cure.
Fill the mouth with parrafin oil and leave it boil for some time.
A pinch of salt put up the nose was supposed to cure a toothache.
Stick a dead man's finger into the mouth
Put a piece of perk in the hole of the tooth.
Put a piece from of burned limestone into the tooth or also a piece of blue-stone.
Chincough: The leavings of milk being drunk by a ferret and given to the infected person to drink.
Donkey's milk given to the person and when this was drunk the person was put under and over the donkey.
The fumes of burned tar inhaled

A stitch in the side: Spit under a stone. Make the sign of the Cross nine times.
Warts: Rub stones to each one of the warts and put them into a paper-bag and leave the bag in the middle of the road. The first person that picks them up takes the warts. Steal a piece of meat and bury it in the manure-heap. Tie a rib from a horse's tail around them Rub a spittle to them before breaking the fast. Rub [?] to them. (Barnicin is a plant found growing by the banks of rivers. It is known in English as Spurge.)
Put a pin under a fence and tell no-one.
Rub water ([?]) from the hollow

A man from [?] was playing cards in his beighbours house one night. There were six or eight of them together. This man had a few shillings won when they stopped playing. Then he started for home which was a couple of fields away. He was crossing a stream and he pit his leg into a cow-track and fell on his knees. When he got up he heard all the noise around him and he tought it was the other lads that were after him. After a while he heard laughing and he saw a white figure

About a hundred years ago four miles to the east of Knocknagree there once stood the ruins of an old castle. It was said this castle was haunted. Any person would not pass there after sunset for walking along the road would be seen the figure of a woman. One day a woman was going to the village and her husband told her to bring him some tobacco but she said she forgot it. Then he said he would go for it himself. She said to him how could he go for it that the ghost would be n the road before him and he couldn't pass her. He said that what ever the ghost would do that he wanted to get the tobacco for he had not a smoke all day. He went away and when he came near the castle he saw a woman sitting near the wall of it. She was smoking a pipe. He took the pips and smoked it for a while and gave it back to her again. "The lord have mercy on your soul and on the souls of you

5. For what is called [?] The seventh son of a family in which there is no danghlin before him in whose land a worm would be pleased before anything else. Of that worm would die therein that land had a complete cure for the malady my touching the sore.
6. Worms. For children subject to worms there is a plaster composed of herbs and applied over the stomack which has cured children where dostars have been known to fail.
7. Chincough. (a) Take more than a supply os sweet milk to a ferret and give what would be left over to a child for the successive days. (b) Stand on the road until a man with a white horse comes along. Ask him for a cure for chin cough Whatever he prescribes that is the cure
8. If one left a lizzard on ones tongue a red hot iron would have no effect on that tongue and the tongue would have a cure for a burn.

she found the woman there. She accursed her for the remant she made on the frog on her way to the market and "why not say" God rules" to all that comes on your way"
Immediately they wanted her to have supper. She said, "Uo drank you." The old fairy queen of the castle said." I must give you a present of a dress or something that will be nice that you will wear at the next meeting you will attend."
A usual there used to be large meetings in olden times all ladies and gentlemen in the castle bid her good bye. The man on the white horse drove up to the castle door and took her away. As they travelled along her friend told her not to look behind her or "you will never get back your home."
When they came near [?] he asked her to show him that

Heard the following story from Mrs. H. O'Sullivan of Dromahave, Mallow, Co. Cork. aged 90 years. [?].
Mary O'Sulivan was employed as a maid at a Protestant's house situated near Glantane, Mallow. The maste of the house was not long dead. One day or rather one evening after sunset as many was driving cattle into a field after milking she saw a man standing at the gate, and whom she instantly knew to be the master of the place who had died some time previously. The dog that accompanied her left her side and went to him and began licking his hands and jumping around him. The frightened girl rushed over the ditch and humid into the house while she [?] the people there with the story. Her mistress scolded her and sad that she must have been [?]. The girl at once went to her room and packed up her belongings and left the house for her own home. She never went back again to her employer. It was noticed that the dog never returned to the house after the alleged appearance of its master. A search was instituted, and the dog was found dead on its master's grave.

The pilgrim must visit the grave once every Wednesday before noon for three Wednesdays and pray.
The prayers said are a decade of the Rosary at each of the four corners of the ground (it does not matter at [?] corner person begins) and say fifth decade for [?] Fr. Kelleher's soul. Next the pilgrim takes a bottle of natural water which he has brought with him and plants three pinches of earth from the [?] into the bottle in however the Blessed Trinity. He brings home the bottle and applies water to some or

In Newberry Graveyard in the parrish of Glantane, Mallow, in Father Kelleher's grave. Many people come and pay rewards at this grave during the year to [?] and [?] request.
The first person who ever paid rounds to this priests' grave was a woman from Kerry who had a crippled son. She had a dream that if she visited a certain priest's grave in a certain place and prayed there, her son would be cured. She rose up and after inquiring her way all along from the people [?] came to Fr. Kelleher's grave in Newberry. Tradition says her request was granted.

Pigs see the wind; it is like fire in their eyes. If you have plenty of money in your pocket when there is a full moon in the sky, you will have plenty of money at every full moon.
It is unlucky to see the new moon through the flass of window for first time.
You should make the sign of the brass on yourself on seeing the new moon in sky for the first time.
(Received show from Margaret Kelly, a pupil, of Burnfort n.S., who heard it from the people living in Island Burnfort, Mallow.)
The ivy is an unlucky day to remove to a new home.
(Received from Kathleen Kuffe, a pupil, who heard it from her father and grandmother, residing at [?], Burnfort, Mallow.)

A long time ago there was one fire in the north where it was always very gold. All the people of the north loved that fire, and would not live without it. They put a man and a boy to watch it in their turns night and day. Their job was to put fresh wood in the fire when it was going out. There was a great white bear who lived by the icy seas. He thought that if there was no fire the people would have to go away and leave him to hunt the fish alone. He hoped that some day the man or boy who watched the fire would grow careless and fail to keep it lighting. This did happen one day. The boy was in charge when he fell asleep. That was the what the bear wanted. He crept out of his hiding place to where the fire was while the fire slept. The bear lay down on the ground and rolled over on the fire until it was quite black and not a spark could be seen.
"Good," said the white bear to himself. "Now I shall have peace and everything will be nice and cold again."
"[?]" said a cheery voice at this moment and out hopped a little robin from his nest near by. He looked around and saw that the bear had gone away. He flew up to the fire, and he was glad to see that there was one spark left in the fire. He flapped his wings as quickly so he could and in this way fanned the spark. Some more sparks appeared and then a little flame which grew larger as the robin continued flapping his wings. But the bird had gone so near to the fire that

through one of the windows in Bishop's Hall stable, and prints on the window sill are supposed to be there left by his horse when jumping through. It is said he jumped over The White Horse when he was pursued another time. The horse was killed in the jump and that is how the "White Horse" derives its name. On the summit of Tory Hill there is an odd turret which is supposed to have been built by a nobleman for his son, because a witch foretold that as seen as he would reach a certain age he would be killed by lightning. According to his father's orders he was to go into the castle and not leave it for a year. But against his father's wishes the boy went down the side of the hill and his under the side of the hill and hid under the side of the hill that night the castle
was blown down by a storm and the boy was safe on the hillside.
(Received above from Peggy Hays, a pupil of Burnfort, N.S. who heard legents from her mother residing in Island, Burnfort, Mallow.)

There are landmarks such as [?], [?], Tory Hill, and many others which have attached to them an ancient history.
In Carriganurva a woman was supposed to have lived long ago and when the troubled days came on Ireland she was supposed to ave hidden a pot of gold there which was never got.
St. Patrick, when on his missionary travels in Ireland, visited a house in Ballinerea, and there a hound was prepared for the meal for him. When St. Patrick came in he blessed the table, and did not stop mumming until he came to the [?] where he struck his stone off a stone, the mark of which is there to this day.
St. Patrick's well is [?] in Connawel and people who live armed the place fo there to get cured of their diseases. St. Patrick also proposed that there would be always a lame and a blind person in [?] and an [?] and an remscach in Attylumore. Tory Hill, which is a famous landmark, is about 966 feet above the sea-level. It derives its name from a robber named Freney who lived there. Tradition tells us that e was being pursued by the authorities, and he turned the shoes backward on his horse and therefore escaped. On another occasion he jumped

If a badger caught you by the leg he would not let go his grip of you till he would hear the bone cracking.
The four-leave shamrock and white heather are lucky plants.
If you injured a cricket he would ear all of your stockings.
It is a sign of good luck to have crickets, and when a person dies they often leave house.
(Received above from Sean O'Shea, a pupil of Burnfort School, who heaed them from his parents residing at Ballyknokane, [?] Abbey, Mallow.)

It is unlucky to leave your house n a Monday and then turn towards the South.
It is unlucky to leave your house on a Friday and turn towards the east.
It is unlucky to leave your house on a Saturday and turn towards the West.
To meet a hare is a sign of an unlucky journey.
Spiders denote something new to wear.
Butter, sign of a death.
The altar and grave should be turned towards the South.
If a cricket flow end in the yard it is a sign of fair weather.
When a star falls it is a sign of a soul going to heaven. The head of the bud should be turned towards the east, west, or north.
(Received above from Mary Burke, a pupil, of Bumfort, N.S, who heard them from her mother residing at Bottlehill, Bumport.)
M.B: Received the above superstitions from several other pupils.
If a woman with a child ([?]) sees hare in field the child when born will have a hare lip

and approaches holy well. He takes the vessel used for drinking the water, dips it into well and drinks a little, throwing away what is left in the vessel. He dips again, drinks, and throws away what is left. Ge repeats again the operation of dipping, drinking and throwing away amount left in vessel. This done, he leaves vessel in its place and his round ins finished. Most of the alms are left on the tree marked in skitch. Large crowds pay rounds at this time aswell on St John's Eve (23rd. June) every year, and afterwards sojourn to roadside nearly to attend a dark. Dance is usually held when all pilgrims have performed their rounds. It is completed that up to five hundred people from all surrounding districts attend regularly every year and perform these rounds.
(Above data supplied by Mrs. John Murphy, of Bumfort, Mallow Co-Cork, eyed aged about 50 years)

and approaches holy well. He takes the vessel used for drinking the water, dips it into well and drinks a little, throwing away what is left in the vessel. He dips again, drinks, and throws away what is left. Ge repeats again the operation of dipping, drinking and throwing away amount left in vessel. This done, he leaves vessel in its place and his round ins finished. Most of the alms are left on the tree marked in skitch. Large crowds pay rounds at this time aswell on St John's Eve (23rd. June) every year, and afterwards sojourn to roadside nearly to attend a dark. Dance is usually held when all pilgrims have performed their rounds. It is completed that up to five hundred people from all surrounding districts attend regularly every year and perform these rounds.
(Above data supplied by Mrs. John Murphy, of Bumfort, Mallow Co-Cork, eyed aged about 50 years)

Method of Performing Rounds at St. John's Well or Tobar [?], [?] Betterhill, Bumfort.
Alms again by people: money (coppers, sixpence or a shilling) flowers, an old money beads. a hairpin, [?]
The pilgrim begins round of holy Well at point A by saying first decade of Rosary at this point, and walks on path round the well stopping at three places between A and B and saying a decade of Rosary at each point. He says fifth decade at point B. Next he crosses stream and approaches the stone marked. In centre of stone in a hollow or carity wherein lies a smoot round fairly large pebble . On the surface of the stone is marked there now of three crosses each. Pilgrim takes pebble in his right hand and trace with it the sign of the cross in each of the crosses marked in the three rows. He replaces pebble then,

Superstitions
One magpie for bad lick
Two for good luck
Three for a [?]
Four for joy
Five for a christening
Six for death,
Seven for a secret was never told.
If a spider creeps over your boots it is a sign that you would be going to get a new pair of boots.
If you heard a cricket singing it is a sign of joy.
Weather:
It is said that if a cricket flew out in the yard we could expect fine weather.
To see the sun going down red is a sign of the clearing of weather.

bit of a string from one end to the other. Then get another stick with a catch on it and give it a jerk against the twine and it will fly off.
Whip: It is made of twelve rushed and tied at the top with twine. Then put four more rushes now [?] the other twelve and it would be just like a loading handle whip.
Corks: Get nine corks and put them on a ring, eight outside and one in the middle called Kruger. Get three pieces of sticks about a half a foot long and an inch wide. Throw the three sticks, one at a time, to see who would knock the most corks. You would get two for Kruger.
Feedorgue: It can be made from a strong bark of straw on a quill. About an inch from the top cut in a small slitso that when you blow into it a small amount of air will escape making noise like a whistle.

Boats: Boats are made from flagger tops by burning down a piece of the flagger at each end and splitting each side twice so that one piece can be put into the other to form a boat.
Tops: Tops are made form timber and are shaped to a point on one side and float on the top so that it can be spun with a whip.
A Crib: A crib is used for catching birds. It is made of short pieces of sticks and they are woven and out. It is made that way until it is brought to a pointed top. Then a sally rod is put into the two farthest corners of the crib. Then get a forked stick and put it beside the crib and get a short piece of stick and bend one end of it. Then leave it on the forked stick and get the other end of it and leave it on the sally rod. When the bird touches the crib it will fall on her.
Bow and Arrow: It is made from two bits of sticks. There is one of the sticks bent and there is a

Speech: Twitter
Curlew: Nest: Builds er nest of hay in tuft of rushes
Eggs: Usually five, spotted, dark blue
Flight: High
Speech: Calling loudly
Weather: Crying in the evening sign of rain
Maude Fahey
Magpie: Nest: Builds on top of high tree with hay sticks and hair
Eggs: Usually seven. colour blue.
Flight: Flies straight through the air with short turns.
Speech: Twitter
pigeon: Nest: Builds on top of high tree with hay and sticks
Eggs: Lays four eggs.
Flight: Fliest straight in the air.
Speech: boo boo.
Waterhen: Nest: Builds in bank of a river. with moss, grass
Eggs: Usually five, color blue
Flight: Floats along the water.
Mary Shaughnessy

Wren: Nest: Builds her nest in an old bush. of moss buried with hay with a roof.
Eggs: Sixteen in number colour spotted brown. Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Flys very low through the ditches never flys in the open.
Stories: The wren is King of the birds. All the birds held meeting to select a King. They said the best way to do t was to use which bird would fly the highest. When the eagle was at her highest the wren flew out from under her wing and up higher than she so the wren was made King of the birds.
Speech: She sings
Thrush: Nest: Made of hay, moss, mud, lined with hair. Builds in an old bush on hedge
Eggs: Spotted white, five in number, Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Low and quickly
Speech: A loud whistling.
Cornerake: Nest: Builds her nest in a meadow of field of corn
Eggs: Thirteen or fourteen. colour spotted brown. Three weeks to hatch.
Flight: Low through the grass. She migrated in winter
Speech: Corncrake, corncrake
Cuckoo: Eggs: Lays her eggs in another birds nest.

92. Where is he who never saw his equals
god
93. It goes down day and it comes up wet and all the people in the country like its The Tea.
94. In a garden was laid a beautiful maid, As bright and so fair as the morn, She became a wife the first hour of her life, And she died before she was born.
Eve.
95. What is the shyest thing in the world
A block.
96. What is the highest part of a cow in the wood.
Her bow.
97. What part of a cow goes into the wood first.
Her breath.
98. An old woman went out a gap and every time she went the gap she left a bit of her tail after her.
A woman sewing.
99. Long legs, Short thighs, little head and no eyes.
A tongs.
100. Two stick standers four many Anders a whip and

Smiles.
Because there's a mile between the first and last letters.
85. What is the most dangerious time of the year?
Spring.
86. What's always behind time.
The back of the clock.
87. Hour many beaks does a hen put on the ground when she is eating ten grains of wheat.
One.
88. A clipper of ditches a cutter of thorns; a little brown cow with two leather horns.
A Rabbit.
89. Black and white and read all over.
A Newspaper.
90. From house to house and goes into no house.
A path.
91. When I was born my uncle he.
Five pounds in gold he gave to me.
Every time my birthday comes he never failed to do the same.
Just when I was twenty four
I had thirty pounds and nothing more.
What date was I born.
Twenty ninth of February.

75. How many holes must there be in jug before it can leak.
Two holes
76. In the river and is not drowned. In the shop and is not sold, in the field of hay and is not [?] down
The sun.
77. What is that which is no use to a ear and it cannot go without it
The noise.
78. Fat and stout grown out fit for any lady in the land to take it in her hand and throw it in the hold before her
A mangle.
79. Why is a dirty child like a flannell.
Because he shrinks from washing.
80. What side of a cup is the handle on
The outside.
81. Little genny muddl sittin on the puddle green ground and a yellow knot
A flagger
82. Why is the letter K. like a pigs tail,
Because it is the end of pork.
83. What is it that a lady always looks for but never wishes to find?
A hole in her stocking
84. What is the longest word in the English language?

work without the other
Knitting needles
67. Middy noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat
Pot
68. As black as coal and coal is 'tis not as green as grass and grass 'tis not as red as a nose and a nose 'tis not
A black berry
70. One half dead, the other half living and is do tail wagging
A dog with his head in a pot
71. Patch upon patch, without any stitches. Riddle me that, and I will buy you a pair of breeches.
A head of cabbage.
72. When is water like fat
When it is dripping.
73. Round the wood and round the wood and [?] the harrow after it.
A hen and a clutch of chickens.
74. How many prods of a beggarman's stick would make a pot of porrage.
No one

57. What plays in the town and grows in the wood
A Fiddle.
58. What goes up the ladder with its head down.
A nail in your boot.
59. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup all the king's horses wouldn't pull it up.
A well.
60. When a shoemaker is about to make a boot which is the first thing he uses.
The last.
61. As round as an apple, a plump as a ball, can climb over churches steeple and all.
The sun.
62. Uo the road and down the road and carried the road on my back
A ladder
63. A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you wont guess that.
A pipe.
64. A little thing hanging on the wall, it drinks all it gets and eats none atal
A lamp.
65. It is in it since the beginning of the world and it's no age
The moon
66. Four little sisters like each other one can't

in a terrible state as she didn't know how to figure the wool or spill the pedal. Well she was in the room anyway thinking very hard when who should come in through the window, but a very old ugly woman with one very large foot. The girl asked her who she was and why her foot was so big and the ugly woman said that she was a fairy and that she was the best spinner in the world that her food was so big from working the pedal. The girl was glad when she heard that, and she asked the fairy if she would help her to do her spinning, that she didn't know anything about the work. The fairy said she would if the girl would give her a note asking her to the wedding. The girl wrote the note for her, and the fairy woman began to sew and she fingered the wool like lightning and made the pedal fly like the wind & in a few minutes all the wool in the room was spun most beautifully. In the evening the King's mother called to see how she was getting on, and she was more than surprised to see all the spinning done so beautifully. She said that the next day she would test her at the wedding. Well the next day she brought the girl into a big room and their were thousands of balls of woollen and linen thread [?] woven, and she said her to have it all woven before

anyway thinking very hard when who should come in through the window but a very old ugly woman with a very large nose. The girl asked her who she was, and why her nose was so big and the woman said that she was a fairy and that she was the greatest sewer in the world and that her nose was big from stooping over her sewing. The girl was glad when she heard that and she asked the fairy if she would help her to do her sewing, that she didn't know anything about the work. The fairy said she would if the girl would leave a note asking her (the fairy) to her wedding. The girl wrote the note for her (an invitation) and this fairy woman [?] to sew and she stooped over her work and in a few minutes all the clothes in the room were sewn beautifully. In the evening the King's mother called to see how she was getting on with the sewing, and she was more than surprised to see all the sewing done so beautifully. She said that the next day she brought the girl into a big room, and there were thousands of packs of wool in the room and she told her to have it all spun before nightfall. The girl was

fingure. So the King said to wait till the next day, that he's have more money. So he sent all on this country and gathered up all the gold and jewels in the land and it took hundreds of carts and wagons to carry it all. But the man that was bringing the "breshna" to the King of the world gathered up the carts and wagon and the six men started off with all the gold of the country.
So the King called together all his people and told them of the robber that had taken all his and their money, and told them that people were very angry and they made a big army of thousands of men and started off pursuit of the six men. They caught up with them and surrounded them and demanded back the King's money and jewels. The men didn't know what to do, but the man with his hand on his nostril said:- "Never mind let me talk to them." So he turned to the army and took his hand off his nostril and he let a terrible sneeze, and he flew the whole army sky high and they were hitting and cracking in the air for half an hour before they fell in pieces to the ground. So the six men started off again with the kings money and jewels

Jack The Ripper
By the powers of Mall Kenny He is captured at last
We hear Jack the Ripper
Has come to Belfast
All around Ireland
He intends for to sail
Until the devil does catch him
And slap him in jail.
Who must he be? Can nobody tell
Or is he an Antichrist liberated from Hell.
"We are done for certain" that's what they will say
Here comes Jack the Ripper, keep out of his way.
He is down on the women whenever he can
Especially those looking out for a man. He is too easily known by the habit he got I am advising every lad to look after his "moth" Keep indoors after night-fall and take my advice. Beware of the men if they want to entice. Every man ask you to give him a [?] Put your hands to your mouth with your findgers do
Now we'll shortlyhaar tell of his kick on the trap And "Martin" to whoever him with the white cap May ten thousand devils with large iron chains Be there on the scaffold to dash out his brains ([?])

With his rudders stuck in broken sea
He acted as a man
And after that I soon found out
'Twas gallant Gal McCann.
VI
The next man who landed up
Was gallant Mick McHale
The sea being thick he did his bit
His gallant crew to save
The lads were young and full of fun
Not mindful of the gale
But you can bet they'll never forget
Their gallant Mick McHale.
VII
Our people fathered to the shore
When the seas rose mountains high
Poor Jack as if on board a ship
To save as he did try.
With something in his hand
To throw a rope to every boat
So order that we'd land.
Now to conclude and finish up, we should always trust [?] And thank His Grace that brought us safe for the sea was nearly mad. It being as dark when the wind blew high we could hardly make our way So we'll date it 1926 the night of the big say (sea)

We shot out nets and said our prayers
And had a friendly talk
But to our good lick the fish were slow
Or else we were all caught
III
All in a crash the wind went North
And the seas rose mountain highPut out your oars and board your nets,"
Was everybody's cry.
With Michael Jamesy at the sole
I quickly seized the rope
And with all our might hauled in the nets
And then brought round the boat
IV
When I got my rudder up
I steered a course for home
While running sideways by the rock
The sea was all a foam
At the tops of Scaith I laid her off
For the cannons there did roar
And I said, "Each man do what you can
Until we reach the shore."
V
And when we left the tops of Scaith
I sighted a canoe
And I prayed to God to guard him
And show him what to do

A Fisherman's Tale
(Martin Healy was an old fisherman and got many hard nights on sea. He never thought them worthy of a rhyme. however till the night he tells of here MArtin was and is the local poet. For over 50 years he has been making songs about all the events of local interest- road-making, match-making. Sean's Garnder and the Melodeon, Mockedy's Still-House etc.)
I
Ye landsmen all on you I call
And galland seamen too
Till I relate the hardships great
That lately I went through
I spend my life a fisherman
And rode oe'r many a say (sea)
And prayed to God to guide me on
And show me the right way
II
This night the sea was very calm
But the sun looked rather pal
When the moon went dim behind the hill
There was no sign of a gale.

The Mary Wilson I
The Mary Wilson was a noble ship, she was not very long. She could stand any storm, She was built so strong. Her crew ware four in number They thought that would do Mcdonnell was the Captain with Barry, Jack and Hugh
II
It was on Thursday morning It being about twelve oclock When young and old from every part They came to see the wreck And when they landed on the beach Most desperate was the roar And there was poor Mary Wilson Lay wrecked upon the shore.
III
The coastgards [?] the galley and that without delay And as they were launching it Ashe he ran away. He was the only coward I saw upon the beach I declare his flesh was tremnling And he had every screech.

The only wreck remembered here is the wreck of a small collier called "The Many Wilson" She was wrecked here on the 14th of August 1884. She left Lough Swilly bound for Galway with a cargo of coal. A nor-west wind was blowing and it was very wild
Somewhere around the Stags of Broadhaven she lost her sails and drifted towards Beldrring bay. She lost her steer at [?] and was thrown in at the mouth of the river. She had four of a crew Captain McDonnell, Jack Nallen, nate Hugh Henry and Barry. She was so close to the shore that Barry thought he would swim to land. He jumped overboard and the current carried him out to sea and he was lose: The coastguards succeeded in saving the others. The ship and her cargo was auctioned and was bought by an Englishman, Arthur Mudge, who loved in Glenbossera. He used her timbers for fence poles and the remains

I have an old cow with her back to the well. She would eat all the fodder from here to Donegal (a fire)

later with the fishing line wound around his legs and it is believed this was what drowned him.
The [?] says "the drowning was on him" for a short time before that he was scraping shells a day and he slipped off the rick and even though a stroke would bring him to the boat they had to stretch him the helm to save him. The peculiar point about this was that he was the best swimmer in the place.
On the night of the [?] and [?] tragedy 1927 the Belderring men were gathered at the shore to go fishing byt not likings the appearance of the night they did not go out. Had they gone out it is more than likely some or all would have been lost for the storm came on so quickly the would have no chance to reach land.

on June nights-the rougher the night the bigger the catch. This makes it a very dangerous fishing, but the nights are short and so the danger is lessened. There has never been a disaster over salmon fishing here thank God.
There has been no serious fishing disaster here in living memory. The last tragedy occurred about fifty years ago when a man named OBoyle was drowned.
He was married and living away from his people. On the evening of the tragedy, he shaved himself on his way to the shore he called into his parents where he hadn't been before for a long time. He went out fishing glassen in a curragh and the sea was as calm as a lake. They were fishing close to the shore and kept too near a bay of sunken rock. The body broke, that is a wake broke on the rock and capsized the curragh. Billy OBoyle was the best swimmer in the place and two strokes would save him. But after going down he never came up. He was found

paid the same price. An average catch for the season at this time was about 450 salmon, averaging 6 lbs each. For the past ten years the people have begun to get their own nets and send the salmon themselves to Dublin or Billingsgate. The average catch per curragh would be 250 salmon averaging 6 lbs. An average price per lb for the past few years would be 10d. This would be an average of (pound sign_ 10 per man for the season. Some crews however make up to (pound sign) 20 per man.
The nets used are each two hundred yards long and about seven feet deep (25 [?]). They cost about (pound sign) 2 and last for two seasons generally. The license each crew pays is (pound sign)3.
The salmon season lasts only from 1st June to the middle of July. The heaviest catches are around the 29th June. A record catch here for one night was 109 salmon. This was in a boat when the fishing frost started. The record nights catch for a curragh is 84. The salmon are not caught

six rowers in the Belderring's boat and the two boats were even for a long time. Coming near the shore however the Donegal men beat Belderring.
[?]
Salmon fishing is the principal fishing on Belderring bay now-a-days. Salmon fishing was introduced about forty years ago by a man named Fair. He supplied the people with nets and paied them five pence per pound for all the fish caust. After a few years the fishing failed. Later on the local shopkeeper got nets and

There were two men from Donegal named Charley and Michael Phillips fishing in Belderring in older times. They had a boat between them and had only themselves as crew. One day their boat and a Belderring boat met in the middle of the bay and they said they would have a race to the shore. There were

As white as milk-milk it isn't
As green as grass-grass it isn't
As red as blood-blood it isn't
As black as ink-ink it isn't
(a blackberry)
As I went up the road I met my Aunt Rose
She had steel toes, iron nose
And be like the Crows she'd [?] the crows
(A Gun)

and didn't know where he was till he stepped into the deepest pool in the river, alone to the school. The pool was not wide but deep enough to drown him. He got to the other side and whistled till we went to his aid. He points to this as a proof that he couldn't be drowned. He maintains he was put astray by the fairies on this night. This is a common prank the fairies play on people and once a person lloses his way, the only cure is to turn is waistcoat inside out. He gets his true bearings then.

Army.One night while on leave he gol on urgent summons to headquarters. It was a very wild nigt and he had to cross an arm of a bay in a boat alone. The wind was so strong that he carried out of the bay. While passing the end of a pier a man cast him a rope which missed him by inches He was carried out to sea. Months later the boat drifted landwards father along the coast and Regan was found sitting upright onhis seat frozen stiff and dead. The seanachie pointed out that even in the terrible storm he had been preserved from drowning.
The seanachie left my father's house one dark night about fifteen years ago. He took a coal in his hand to show him light. He had only about three hundred yards to go to his own house. For some unaccountable reason he went in the opposite direction to his own house

Local marriage customs
Up to twenty or thirty of the great period for marriage was during Shrove, though indeed the period was often intended very much who the Lenten period. Boys and girls on the [?] out, as the used to say, offended the weekly markets and often the parties were introduced to each other by a shopkeeper of whom both happened to be customers. The last Thursday used to be called saeting-Thursday. It was the customs in those days to scatter salt on the [?] whose match had not been made up to then, and who paraded the town that evening. The idea was to premiere them for another shrove.
Generously the parties came together in some [?] house, possibly introduced to each other by the publican. Often however [?] had [?] passed. The more usual method was for the boy on to send a friend to the girl's house to ask her. If the girl was entertain an arrangement was made for the parties and their near relations to meeet in town on a [?] day when the whole [?] would be gone

A Burning
A few years ago as we were coming from Mass we saw a blaze in the bog in the place where a house should be. On going to the place they found that the house was on fire. The owner said that the lamp was lit all night (and) It was hanging near the roof and that it caught the board which set on fire. The owner who was-: Mike McDermot Curragh Dummore.
As the men were cutting turf a few days ago they saw a blaze. A piece of bog set on fire and (on) it was not long until it caught a field of potatoes. It was burning there for two days. The owner was

the name of the first man was: Patrick Harte
The second man's name was: Mr. patrick Mullarkey
There was another man who was famous for stonethrowing and hammer throwing and a good walker. His name was Mr. Michael Mullin

about colours, married in blue you're sure to prove true, married in black you'll wish yourself back, married in brown you'll live in town, married in yellow you'll be ashamed of your fellow. It is the custom also for the bride to wear Something old and Something blue. Something borrowed and something blue. After the marriae the bride wears something red on her hat so that she cannot be over-looked. Matches are made in this district by friends of the contracting parties. These matches are always started by a man. If a woman starts it match never takes place. When going to the church the bride always sits beside the best man and the bridegroom sits beside the bridesmaid. After the marriage ceremony a big deast is usuall given at the brides house and this lasts for a day and a night. Straw bous come at night in groups. They are dressed in such a fashion that you would not know them. They wear straw or rish hats about three feet high and their dress usually consists

for it is supposed to be very unlucky if he goes out without doing so and people say he would bring the butter with him. The woman of the house never allows any stranger to come in and light his pope with a coal out of the fire while the churning is going on for such an act is supposed to bring bad luck to the house. There is an old woman near the school and she always has a coal of fire under the churn when making butter. She says that this keeps away the wicked spirits out of hell from the churn. I heard of a woman that foes round other people's lands in May morning dragging a straw rope after her. This woman is supposed to have the most and the best butter for a year no matter what kind of cows she has
There is a superstition here also that if a calf dies and if he has burned in another mans land that man will have no butter as long as the calf remains there but the other man will have plenty butter

CHurning
All the people in this district are farmers and there is a churn in every house. The churns used here are the old-fashioned ones with the long dash. My mother has one of these churns and she makes butter in it twice every week. The various parts of the churn are, the lid, churndash, paint, claibin, butter dish, and butter spade. My mother does the churning and sometimes my father helps her. This is how she does it. The crem which is collected in basins is put into the churn. The dash is then put on then the lid and finally the claibin. The churning which is always done by hand takes about an hour and then churn is always moved upwards and downwards. When tiny specks of butter are visible on the inside of the the lid the churning is finished. In winter warm water is added to the milk while churning. The butter is take out by means of butter spades. Then it is washed with water and salt is mixed with it. Then it is made into little pints or rolls.
If a person comes in while the milk is being churned he takes the dash and gives a few blows

Charms
William Coffey aged 73 yrs of Roundfreid cut the ear of a goat and put a hole in it. He put a piece of red tape through it and tied it round the neck of a child belonging to [?] of Roundfreed, [?] to cure whooping cough. The child was cured and they believe that it was the goat's eat that cures the child.

Charms
1. James Grady who lived in Belevire, Ashberry, cured [?]. He is now dead. He was about 10 years old when he died. He cured Pat McGraith of Balleyskeagh who is still alive. He worked his charm by blowing his breath three times on the abcess, whilst the person he was curing repeates three sets of prayers each time.
2. Griged Pardin lived in [?] [?] and was able to cure any kind of sores. The applied unsalted butter to the sore, and whilst [?] she repeated the words of a charm.

from a neighnour's fire ill luck would fall on the neighbouor
Dont out out asked or clothes on May Day. If you brought out a coal on May Day something in the haggard would light before the next May Day. The foal that is born on May Day has the killing of a man in him. Anyone who dies on May Day is holy. Dont throw out the sweeping on May Day. If a cow calved on May Day the calf would be dead. It is not right to give away money on May Day. You should twist a clock around the churn on May Day so that the people wont steal the butter. If you kill a pig on May Day the meat will be bad. If a child who was born on May Day threw stones he would kill somebody.

from a neighnour's fire ill luck would fall on the neighbouor
Dont out out asked or clothes on May Day. If you brought out a coal on May Day something in the haggard would light before the next May Day. The foal that is born on May Day has the killing of a man in him. Anyone who dies on May Day is holy. Dont throw out the sweeping on May Day. If a cow calved on May Day the calf would be dead. It is not right to give away money on May Day. You should twist a clock around the churn on May Day so that the people wont steal the butter. If you kill a pig on May Day the meat will be bad. If a child who was born on May Day threw stones he would kill somebody.

Ash Wednesday-- When the people go to mass on this day they always bring home some of the holy ashes blessed by the priest to anyone at home who could not go to the church and the person who brings it puts the sign of the cross on the other person's forehead.
Good Friday-- people cut a little of their hair and their nails. They believe that by cutting their hair on this day will make them have fine, healthy hair.
Easter Sunday-- Eggs are eaten very often during the day. People boast of how many they have eaten. This is a great day for visiting friends. Dances are held which often last till the early hours of the next morning.
Whit Sunday-- Country people do not wish to go travelling for on Whit Sunday or during White week. They shun going on water-- boating or bathing. They consider this time unlucky.
May Day-- Milk is never given away on May Day as cow would lose the milk and her milk would go to the persons cow who asked the milk. If anyone took a coal

the [?] are disguised by masks or by painting their faces. One of the [?] carried an image of a baby (a doll or somethink made up like a baby) They play the flute or melodeon outside the door of each ouse and when the time is finished they knock if the door has not already been opened. They then walk inside the kitchen and expect money and very often food and they dance on the kitchen floor. They never speak as their voices might be recognized.. If the are not treated well by the people of the house they visit, they create trouble by fulling up gates, knocking [?]and baking taking farm implements away and hiding them. Shrove Tuesday--A currant cake is made in which a ring is put. Whoever gets the ring will be the first to get married Shrove-tide-- people who were expected not to let Shrove-tide pass without their getting married have salt thrown on them when they next visit their neighbour's house. This is done as a joke or as a reminder that they must be married before the next Shrove is over.

Feasts of the Year
Saint Brigit's night--Young men and woen visit every house in their disctrict on Saint Bridit's Night. Sometimes they traveled a distance of five or six miles boyone their own district. They are called [?]. The men wear their clothes turned inside out and some of them dress as women with shirts or petticoats turned inside out. They [?] love girls' hats on their head with long feathers stick in them. Sometimes they flail some straw and wear it at the back of their heads resembling a girls long plait of hair. They paint their faces black and often wear loose hair stuck on their faces and cover them with marks made from a pieces of cloth in which holes are out for eyes, noses, and mouths. The women wear long skirts or petticoats turned inside out and often covered with check aprons. They wear shawl on coats and sometimes men's hats on caps, if they do not wear women's ones stuck with long feathers on bright artificial flowers. All

Historical customs
In this district rone feasts are held each year. On St. Stephen's day boys go around collecting money to buy the wren, which they are supposed to carry on a branch decorated with ribbons. The song they sing is;
"The wren, the wren the king of all birds, St. Stephens Day was caught into the forge Although he is small his family is great. Rise up good lady and give us a treat. When they would have a lot of money collected the would have a dance in some neighbour's house. On the [?] the night before was St. Bridgit's Day alot of people go out loking for money for the "Biddy". The "Biddy" is dressed up like a big doll. One of the company holds this in his arms. They usually dance and sing at every house.
Susan P. O Niell
[?]

Herbs
There is a fairly large variety of hers and seeds in our farm and many of them are harmful to human beings as well as to animals. The following is a list of the most important and where normally found.
herbs where found ancient use
hemlock on very poor land poisonous, [?]
mettle loamy soil food for foul
rushes on wet soil bedding for [?]
dandelion loamy soil kind of tea
[?] on log in ditches used for bedding
dock poor soil useless
the hemlock and the nettle are the most harmful weeds as they both spread so rapidly. Hemlock is deadly to human beings and to live stock.
kakleen L. D. Maill

shins got tore. We beat her blind she could not see and we Swung her up on a holly tree. Holly and Ivy we set up, Saint Stephen's day in the morning. The boys enjoy following the wren. They father a good deal of money. When they are going to go home in the evening they divide the money between them and the buy sweets. Long ago men used to go following the wren but now they don't. Another great festival day is Shrove Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday. Many people get married on that day. We all look forward to feast days. Another great feast day is Saint Patrick's day the seventeenth of March. We all I wear shamrocks on that day. More people wear badges and harps in honor of Saint Patrick because with the shamrock he showed the pagan people of Ireland long ago that there are three persons in one God. It was Saint Patrick that brought the true faith to Ireland. Some authorities say he was born in Scotland and more say he was born in France. St. Patrick died in the north of Ireland and he was buried in a place

Festival Days
In this district certain fests are held and some old customs are still carried on, Christmas is the greatest feast of the year, and the day after Christmas day is is called Saint Stephen's
Day or "Wren Day". All the boys follow the Wren. They go around from house to house singing the Wren song. They get four-pence in every house. This is the wren song
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds. Saint Stephen's day she was caught in the furge. Although she was little her family was great get up Dear Madam. and give us a treat. As I was going to Killenauk. I not a wren upon the wall, I, up with my stick and knocked her down and brought her home to to baskel town. This is the wren that you may see handing on our holly tree, With a bunch of ribbons by her side and the Knockgraffon boys to be her guide. We followed this wren three miles or so, Through hedges and ditches my

till I saw a man sewing oats in a field "That they may never some up" says I. "That you may never come up" says he, and with that he aimed a stone at me. He got me on the forehead with it and he came running down to me, and he beat me til there wasn't a whole come in my (pocket) body. "Well" says I when I got alright, "What ought I say" says I. "As many as there's down this year, that there may be twice as many down next year," says he.

paved with gold and the houses thatched with pancakes and the swallows used to build their nests in the old mens beards and the turkeys smoked tobacco, and the pigs used to run up and down the streets with knives and forks stuck in their backs saying, "who will eat a bit of me. Who will eat a bit of me" Well that time I got a letter from my Aunt in America telling me that there was a shower of old hags falling. So I started off and I out my head under my arm pit, and my shin [?] in my pockets and it was not long till I saw a man and he was buring twenty five dead jackasses.
There is a shower of old hags falling says I. What says he and he flung a weapon after me and he tripped me with it and he battered and he bruised me and he left me hald-dead on the road. At best anyway I got up and says I to him "And what ought I say"? "That they may never come up" says he." :That they may never come up" says I. [?] went a bit further

he lilkelly to stand for him when he saw the cloven feet. By the time the priest arrived Dan started to roar at the top of his voice and to shake the hooves more than ever. The priest pretended it would be an awful leak to rid the house of this spirit and asked them to go back to the room while he prayed. Dan kept shouting "Give Biddy her money". Thomas told the priest how he kept Biddy's money and that he would gladly give it back. When the priest prayed for some time, the so thought spirit gave a spring and out of the kitchen door, but the priest waited to talk to Thomas and his wife. They told him they would go the very next day with the money to Biddy. Dan waited a little way down the road thanking the priest for how well he had acted. At day break next morning Thomas came with the money to Biddy and in front of Dan handed her over her money and told then what ordeal he had gone through during the night. Dan sympathised with him and with him and in a few days after Biddy gave the money to

thought to be a priest. Dan spoke very politely and asked for a night's lodging. Mrs Walker thought it an honour to have a priest for a night. She offered him something to eat and the best bed in the house, but Dan refused both and told her tht he could sleep only on the floor but asked one old cover. After Thomas and his wife had gone to bed Dan lay in a corner and covered himself up with the old cover Mrs Walker ad given him. When he thought all was quiet he started to roar and moan. When Thomas heard him he got out of bed and lit a candle and came to the kitchen where Dan lay. He was almost frightened to death when he saw the two old hooves moving from underneath the cover but Dan kept shouting "Give Biddy her money, give Biddy her money." Thomas and his wife thought it was some horrible spirit and ran off for the priest. Of course it was the neighbouring priest that Dan had arranged all with. The priest was waiting for the call for Dan told him that Thomas would

from Thomas. He knew it was useless to take any legal proceedings. He went and asked Thomas for the money but of course Thomas denied he had it. That day Dan went to the priest and told him the step he intended to take and asked an old suit. The priest fave him an old suit and promised to do all he could to help him with his plan. Next night Dan dressed in the priest clothes and went to Michael O'Brians barn and got two old hooves and shins of a cow from behind a cupple. Hooves were plentiful in Michael's barn for he was very superstitious and thought that in saving the shins from the cow she would be the last of his cattle to die. About midnight Dan set off carrying the old hooves with him and he looked very religious looking dressed in priest's clothes. It did not take long to get as far as Thomas Walker's and before he nocked on the door he stuck the two old hooves under his coat. When Dan nocked Mrs Walker opened the door and was surprised to see what she

Another Funny Story
Dan Murphy and his sister Biddy lived in a three roomed house and were quite comfortable. They had a nice farm of land and the mother left forty pound in bank for Biddy. All went well till after the mother's death. Dan and Biddy were married. Dan was very extravagant and never cared to save anything for the rainy day Biddy was wise and careful but whenever Dan was hard up for money he kept asking Biddy for some and she did not find till all was gone except for ten pound. Dan knew she had the ten pound left, but try as he would Biddy held on to it. One day Dan threatened to take this off her by force. She thought it best to give the money to a neigbour Thomas Walker, whom she confided in secret. Thomas Walker and his was (was) were very close minded, but however the news leaked out that Thomas was treasurer for Biddy, and Dan thought of a plan to get the money

put it in his purse and went home. So that night when he was going to bed he put the purse under his pillow and went to bed. In the middle of the night the purse swelled and Willie sat up in his bed and the devil began to near. Willie would not let him go until he [?] would promise that he would never call for him again. The devil promised he would let him go. He had lots of money until he died But when he died he went to the gates of heaven there was no chance of him getting in there. When he went down to hell he knocked at the gates and the devil said "who's there?" "Don't you know your old friend Willie Cooper the blacksmith." The devil said; "if you're as big a devil so you were on earth you're not wanted here. So the devil bit a wisp of straw to show him the way back, and from that day to this Willie Cooper is called Willie the wisp.

could not leave the sledge hammer out of his hand. He told Wllie he would give him seven years more if he would take the hammer out of his hand so he agreed. When the seven years were up he called afain, and Willie was having his tea. Sit down on that chair until I finish my tea and I'll be with you. The devil sat down When willie had finished he said, "come on," and the devils could not get up. He was stuck to the chair and he said he would give him seven more years to let him out of the chair and plenty of money all the time. So Willie afreed. When the seven years were up the devile called again, so Willie had to go with him. When they were passing by a public house Willie said to the dveil "Many and many a day I spent in this public house with plenty of money in my pocket and many a good drink I had in it and now I have no money and I am very thirsty" the devil turned himself into a half of a crown and Willie picked it up and

To find a safety-pin lost-a surprize burn a piece of paper, if a small white piece remains unburned in the centre-a letter five burning to one side, on person is leaving the house.
If speaking of any personal success strike timber fearing bad lick would replace success a pin or safety pin cuts love unless stick in timber previously
no sponsor should stand for two children the same year (one will die)
if anew house is built in Kilmaine an old one will fall
Birds flying high in the air-good weather robin near the door-frost
swallow near the ground-rain
ring around the moon-a sign of rain
Cukoo coming early-sign of a good summer
When all the sheep run to one corner-bad weather
Mountains here very blue-a sign of wild weather
Curfew screaming-a sign of bad weather
Dog jumping to catch flies-good weather coming

To find a safety-pin lost-a surprize burn a piece of paper, if a small white piece remains unburned in the centre-a letter five burning to one side, on person is leaving the house.
If speaking of any personal success strike timber fearing bad lick would replace success a pin or safety pin cuts love unless stick in timber previously
no sponsor should stand for two children the same year (one will die)
if anew house is built in Kilmaine an old one will fall
Birds flying high in the air-good weather robin near the door-frost
swallow near the ground-rain
ring around the moon-a sign of rain
Cukoo coming early-sign of a good summer
When all the sheep run to one corner-bad weather
Mountains here very blue-a sign of wild weather
Curfew screaming-a sign of bad weather
Dog jumping to catch flies-good weather coming