School: Cathair Loisgreáin (B)

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   “People bless themselves when making a churn . . .”

   

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   holy straw off the crib in your hand People turn mirrors during lightning salt was considered blessed, said it shouldnt be thrown on floor considered unlucky to spill on table. Dirty salt was thrown into fire salt in water was given to people with stomach ache. It was consid good for worms; mixed with soot it was supposed to cure warble fly bumps on cattle; food for whitening teeth
   when people of house sell or sold milk, they put a pinch of salt on top of milk so that luck would not leave the house with milk

   Hatching: Some women put a wisp of hay into a house where a hen is to be put hatching - she lights the hay with a match while the hatching box is on the kitchen floor. She leaves teh hay burning till it quenches. The she puts dry hay and the hatching eggs in the same box in kitchen and then takes them all to an outhouse to get hatched. Sometimes a blessed candle is got and lit and hen's beak burned. Some of beak falls off Done so that hens would not peck chickens some people burn a rush of hay out of nest and rub around the eggs after selling them

   

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ms Clair

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lehinch, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Pupils

   Address

   Lehinch, Co. Clare