School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)for them to come.
People believe that it is very unlucky to fall that night because you will die before the year is out.
Others play blind man's buff. Some boy will put a blind on his eyes and go around the house after the other children and the one that he will catch will put it on his eyes then the game starts over again.
We get three basins and put water in one of them, clay in another and a beads in the third. If we put our hand in the one with the water with our eyes blindfolded we will cross the water within the year. If we put our hand in the one with the clay we will die, and we put our hand in the third one we will be a priest or a nun.
On that night also we get ten grains of oats put them in our mouths and go outside the door. Then the first one that will pass, we will listen and the person's name he will be talking about that is the name of the person we will be married to.
- Collector
- Nellie Cafferky
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
