Scoil: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Customs (ar lean)

   

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   3 The expectant mother should not take a parcel of any kind of dead meat with her or in her hand for fear of a birth-mark on the child.
   4 If a woman during that period was travelling in the morning fasting it was very bad to see a hare - the Lord save us - the child would have a hare-lip
   5 It is wrong to throw anything at or to the woman If she was sitting on the chair you shouldn’t throw an apple or an orange or a gooseberry or things like that into her lap, or if she was in bed you shouldn’t throw them on the bed near her. They would leave a mark.
   6 Some women thought it unlucky to make the clothes for their own baby (before its birth) and got a neighbouring woman to make them.
   7 The young wife - before her first baby was born - often spent a few weeks with her own mother in her own old home. This was for a double purpose - to get advice from her mother and to get the clothes made and others did it for an easy and successful confinement - for luck.
   8 A pregnant mother never visited the house of another at confinement

   

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