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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 171

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    (8) Whit Sunday.
    On Whit Sunday you should not go near water for its not lucky and you would be in danger of getting drowned.
    (9) On May Eve a may-bush is dressed with flowers in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (2) If you wash your face in the dew on a May morning you will not get sunburnt during the year.
    (10) St Swithins Day
    St Swithins Day falls on the 16th of July, and if it rains on this day it will rain for forty days, and forty nights in succession.
    (11) St Martins Day
    (1) On Saint Martins Day a cock is killed and the blood is sprinkled on all the doors of the out-houses to save the stock from all diseases throughout the year. (2) No mill wheel or any wheel should turn on this Day because St Martin was ground in a mill.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cnogús Dubh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
    Informant
    Mrs M. Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cnogús Dubh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí