School: Baile Mór Síl Anmchadha (Laurencetown)
- Location:
- Laurencetown, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cogaidhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0055, Page 0125
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- (continued from previous page)black-berries are not eaten after this night as the pooka is supposed to go out and spit on them.Sometimes young men and boys go out and throw heads of cabbage or turnips at other people's doors and they think it is the fairies.Two nuts are put on a red coal, one of them called after a boy and the other a girl. If the nuts while burning jump in the opposite directions the pair will not be married, but if they jump towards one another they will be married before the year is out.At one time the girls eat a whole salted herring and then went to bed, and dreamed of the man they would marry.
