Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. Black Pig (continued)

   

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   was a haunted ould place.

   

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2. Piseoga

   “There are many superstitions about May Day.”

   

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   There are many superstitions about May Day. In mostly all places farmers would never like to sell milk on May Day. They'd consider it unlucky, and they used to be afraid that their milk and butter would be taken. The person who'd buy the milk could get the power to take the butter. It happened in this district (Littlecullenstown) that a farmer sold milk wan time on May Day. He sold it to a neighbour who he knew well, and for months after, when he'd churn, there was nothing in the churn but only a small bit of white butter, and you couldn't look at, let alone to ate it, with the smell that was from it. Skimming the Well ~~~ I often heard of "skimming the Well" on May morning. A person would go out at break of day on a May morning; she'd have a kind of an instrument, a vessel of timber, or a piece of a stick, and she'd skim the well towards her own direction, in

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Collector

   • Rita Mills