School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 341
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- 1. Take first & last bit of supper put into right stocking tie with left garter place under head - keep silence & your sweetheart appears
2. Pluck 9 yarrows say some words sleep on yarrows & sweetheart appears
3. Get ball of wool. Go to lime kiln at midnight. Let down ball & call out (in the name of the "ould boy") "who holds the bottom" (ball) Sweetheart answers
4. Peel skin of apple whole. Through over shoulder & it forms inital of Sweetheart.
5. Place an article of clothing in four corners of room. See Sweet heart in Dreams.
6. Wash article of clothing leave on chair before fire Sweet heart comes to turn it
7. Cut an apple before mirror. Look in & see your "intended"
All these tricks are supposed to be done in the name of Devil
