School: Robertson (roll number 13372)
- Location:
- Baile an tSratha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 175
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- Some people put may flowers on the window sills and on the door step on May Eve. It is supposed to keep the witches and fairies away till the next May Day. Some unmarried people gather yarrow on May Eve and they put it under their pillow at night and it is supposed to make them dream of their future wife or husband. They pull ten stalks of yarrow and after they pull each stalk they say,
“Good-Morrow, Good-morrow fair yarrow,
I hope before this time tomorrow,
Thou will show my true love to me.” Some people get up early the first morning in may and they was their face in the dew. This is supposed to make them lucky.
- Collector
- Ella Scott
- Gender
- Female
