School: Na Frasa (roll number 16375)
- Location:
- Frosses, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)Even to this day when a person is finished milking he makes the sign of the cross on the (on the) cow's tail. (^with the milk). I often saw this done and often asked myself what it meant.
One day I asked an old woman what did this practice mean. She told me it kept the cows safely from the fairies; also that it was believed the cow was supposed to have an abundance of milk after this practice was carried out.
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Ballybrollaghan, Co. Donegal
