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The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. The Dearg-Daol

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “Many of the old tales connected with the rural parts of Country Limerick deal with tight-fisted housewives...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “In thatched country farmhouses, a little plant called a "toirpín" is always placed over the door and set in a cow-dung...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “People say that murderers used be placed face-downwards in the coffin so that they could never rise again.”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “Bats rapping at windows portend that someone of the inmates is about to die.”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “When a sow farrows, the offspring are taken away according as they are farrowed. This is to prevent their being smothered or eaten by the sow...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “When a person dies in a house, the clock is stopped until the corpse leaves the house for burial.”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “The water in which a corpse is washed is put under the bed until the corpse is being removed to the church...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “When a two frogs come into a dwelling-house, one if the inmates is supposed to die.”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “One day, a local wit, who had just come down a step in the world was engaged in breaking stones on the roadside for the County Council...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “Much superstition centres round the hair of a human head...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “Some of the more blood-thirsty of the older generation used keep a human hand to effect certain cures...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “On St. Brigid's Night, a black band of ribbon is hung out, and measured...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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    “The filament round a foal when born is kept and cured and hung in the cowshed...”

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  15. The Landlord

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  16. Old Ghost Stories

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  17. Old Crafts

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  18. Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  19. Story of a Local Landlord

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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  20. The Care of Our Farm Animals

    CBÉS 0512

    Thomas Duhig

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