School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 571
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14. If a person finds a four-leaf shamrock, it is lucky, and you'll be wealth afterwards.
15. On Halloween's night at twelve o' clock the young ladies peel an apple. Having an unbroken peel before a looking-glass your husband's image would stand beside you in the glass for a fact.
16. On Palm Sunday, during the reading of the Passion, if a person never moves his legs, but stands still, it is believed that a soul is exempt from purgatory.
17. On St. Brigid's Eve, a stocking or a blue ribbon on a bush is a remedy for a pain in the head.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigdarrery, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mary Lehane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossmahon, Co. Cork
