School: Trian na gCléireach
- Location:
- Treannagleragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chléirigh
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- (continued from previous page)11. Don't count the teeth in a hair comb.
Don't count potatoes when you are putting them down in a pot.
Don't be playing with a "hanger" because people say it is the devil's work.
Don't eat any black-berries after Novembers night.
When people make the first churning after a cow calves is put a live coal under the churn.
If some one comes for a "coal" and you churning, don't give it until the churning is made or he will have the butter.
Don't put out ashes on New Year's Day.
Don't throw out water on New Year's Day.
If the tongs is gone hang a straw on the "crane" and it will be found.
- Informant
- Mrs Carney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Treannagleragh, Co. Mayo
