School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)blessed candles lighting for an hour every night for a week or so.
- My mother told me that on St. Martin's Eve our Lord and his Blessed Mother were in a house. out in the night the man of the house got a great pain. The blessed Lady said to her son to do something for him. Our Lord got a bit of tow and dipped it in the blood of St. Martin. The man got better and ever since there is a great cure in the blood drawn St. Martin's Eve.
- Collector
- Michael Stack
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Stack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Bunagarha, Co. Kerry
- They say it is unlucky to have an old house and go to a new one on Friday. You wouldn't have any luck.On St Martin's Night they kill a chicken and draw his blood and put it on a tow in(continues on next page)