Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
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- (continued from previous page)there is a blessed well, and it is said that long ago, several people got cured there.
In olden times there was a landlord there by the name of Varea.
During his time a bell used be always heard ringing in the graveyard every night; but when he died the bell was never heard ringing again. - On May Eve some people put up a quicken berry branch on the gates and doors to keep the fairies away.
More old people wouldn't like to give a drop of milk away on May Day. They say it would be unlucky.
People long ago used to redden the sock of the plough on May Eve and put it in under the churn, when the churning would be ready.
This was to keep the fairies out of the churning. - If the hills or mountains look real clear, or appear near (they say "the mountains are looking very near") it is a sign of rain.
To see "threads" along the field of a fine sunny day is a sign of rain.(continues on next page)