School: Dún Mór (cailíní)
- Location:
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín Halliday
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Superstition (continued)
“One night a drunkard who was hunch back as on his way from town and he fell asleep on the roadside.”
(continued from previous page)Hansel Monday.The first Monday of the New Year is called "Hansel Monday". If you make a good bargain that day you will succeed for the rest of the year. No graves are to be opened on that day or any Monday during the year. If this rule is broken a great many deaths will take place during the year.Cross DayThe third day of the New Year is called the Cross Day of the year. If you get vexed on that day you will be vexed almost every day of the coming year.- asked what they were to do with him. Their leader told them to put the drunkards hump on him and the old miser went home sorrowfully.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ni Ailledéa
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway