School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)the door in one hand and the spoon of melted lead in the other. When she dropped the lead through the key it made a certain figure -
If it made a ship she would marry a sailor.
If t made a spade she would marry a farmer.
If it made a sword she would marry a soldier.
After this they went out in "cabbage haggard" and pulled the first "head of cabbage" they left a hand on.
If it was a "stout head" she would marry a stout, wealth man and if it was a thin "scraggy head" she wood marry a poor man. Next they went out and they heard somebody callng the future husbands.
They filled a saucer with water another with clay and another with string. Each person was blindfolded and they put their hand on a saucer in turn.
If you touched the clay you would soon die.
If you touched the water you would cross the sea.
If you touched the ring you would be married.
Now the tea was made and the "Barmbrack" was cut. This contained a piece of cloth and a stick and a ring.
Who ever got the ring would marry.
Who ever got the cloth would be a nun.
Who ever got the stick would never marry.
- Collector
- Margaret Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockfune, Co. Tipperary
