School: Rahavanaig
- Location:
- Rahavanig, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire de Stac
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0400, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)shared to the tea-party. Then the excitement begins to see who will find the hidden treasure. The ring is a sign of marriage, the bean for wealth and the pea for poverty.
After the feast is over a number of games are played - burning nuts, púicín or blind-man's-buff and snap-apple. Two nuts or beans are put on the hearth or gríosach - the name of a boy is put on one, a girl's name on the other. If the nuts remain together it is a sign that they will be married, if the nuts jump apart they will forsake each other.
To play púicín:- Three saucers are put on the table, clay is put in one, water in another and a ring in the third. A púicín is put on one of the company and walks to the table. If he puts his hand in the clay it is a sign of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Mhóráin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahesheragh South, Co. Kerry
