School: Scoil Sheosaimh Ntha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Glennamaddy, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Threasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 196
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- (continued from previous page)4. People would not lend anything on a Monday for fear they would (give) bring the luck from them.
5. They would not start any job on the odd day of the year because that was the day King Herod ordered the male children to be put to death.
6. If you were going on a journey not to turn back that it was not right.
7. The people used to say you should never pass under a ladder that would be left under a house. If you did you should turn back again.
8. The people long ago would not throw out the water that they would wash their face with after sunset.
9 When they used to throw out the water they used to say cugar.
10. It was the custom of the old people to say God Bless us when one would sneeze.
11. It was the custom of the old people to put a lighted coal on top of holy water and salt on the first seed that woudl be sown in Spring(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Gibney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Diskin
- Gender
- Male
