School: Lúbán Díge (Bodyke)
- Location:
- Bodyke, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 389
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- (continued from previous page)Eggs: Farmers can easily and cheaply keep hens. They have every convenience. I notice they have improved the houses for hens on the most approved style.
The Poultry Instructress in the county has done much good tho the people do not do or take all her advice.
The chickens are hatched in Spring. The woman of the house gets a "clocker" and put an odd number of eggs under her in a pot or bore of hay. The sign of the cross is made on each egg with a pencil and the holy water is sprinkled on her.
The cock is the male bird and if he crows at night before the right time, it is supposed to be unlucky and portends death.
He is generally killed.
When a death occurs people sometimes say the cock crew each night at such an hour.
I knew it meant death for some one.
People consider it lucky for a hen who has laid out and hatched her own eggs to come in with them.
It is also considered a lucky present to give a new married woman eggs or a clutch of chickens.
Hens are called by = cluck cluck = tioc tioc
Turkeys = biso - biso (bee bee)
Geese = Baddy Baddy
