School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sholamháin
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- (continued from previous page)A superstitious practice indulged in on these says was as follows. If a baby was left unattended in a cradle while the mother went out, she always put the kitchen tongs across the cradle; this was thought to thwart the fairies power, so that they could not take away the baby. A story is told in this connection, where a parent forgot to put the tongs across the cradle. She went out to the well for a bucket of water but on her return noticed the child whining and very sick. No cure or remedy seemed to do the child any good; it died, and of course it was then said "the good people" took it.
- Collector
- Margaret Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Carroll
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim