School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Claremorris, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 304
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- (continued from previous page)We play games boys do not play such as _ skipping, hopscotch, thread the needle, four cornered fool.In Autumn we gather nuts and Black Berries _ We make jam of the latter by bruising the berries with a spoon and putting sugar on them. On November's night people dive for apples. They use there saucers - clay in one, water in another, and a ring in another - they blindfold some one and wherever she puts her hand _ will decide her fate, clay = die soon, water = go across the sea, ring = will be married, catching apples from the ceiling, melting lead. Putting two nuts in the fire, washing clothes in the nearest river. Hang opposite your bed-room window, look out at midnight and you will see your intended turning the clothes. Cayenne pepper in keyholes all sneezing that night.
Kitty Sloyan, (13 years)
Claremorris.
- Collector
- Kitty Sloyan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Mayo Abbey, Co. Mayo
