School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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- (continued from previous page)Then they will catch the tongs to strike you with it. The tongs will be hot and they will get their hands burned.
Another trick is to tell someone you can tell him where a knife is, no matter where he hides it. Give him a knife and tell him go outside with it, and put it anywhere he wishes. When he'll come in he'll ask you where the knife is. Tell him that the knife is in the handle. Then he will have to go out, and bring in the knife, and it's likely he won't be pleased with it.
This is another trick that the people used to play long ago. The trick is to tell someone or a few people to go outside and when they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Meer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Meer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
