School: Leath-cheathrú (roll number 13437)
- Location:
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Maidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 495
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- A few days before the Twelfth Night the people prepare by getting some stout rushes and taking off their green coats. They then leave them in tallow for a period. On the twelfth night those are lighted and placed in soft material and each person names it’s own candle. The first candle that quenches indicates that that person will die first, and they continue in that manner until the last is burned. On St. Bridget’s Day young boys and girls used to go from house to house with the ‘Brideog’.The boys used to carry a girdle with them. At each house as they passed the leader said:-
The girdle of Bridgid is my girdle
The girdle of the four crosses
If you are in good circumstances tonight(continues on next page)
