DOI: 10.7925/drs1.duchas_4672110
title: Tobar an Choire (2)

description: A collection of folklore and local history stories from Tobar an Choire (2) (school) (Tobercurry, Co. Sligo), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Eilís Caswall.
description: Arraing / Gaughan, Mary -- On St.Bridget's night some people put out a cloth and leave it outside until the next day. / Gaughan, Mary -- The old people believed that a man on a grey horse had a cure for whooping cough. / Goulden, Sadie -- For a cow after calving, people believed in getting a sheaf of oats and rubbing soot on it. / Gaughan, Mary -- The old people say that if a black snail is put on a wart and then on a tree, that as soon as the snail shrivels the wart goes away. / Boyers, Bertie -- It is said that the tongue of a fox would take the thorn out of one's hand. / Boyers, Bertie -- Early before the sun gets up on May day if you go into another man's field and milk one drop from every cow there, you'll have all the butter for the year. / Gaughan, Mary -- Some people believe that it is not lucky to send milk out of the house without first putting a tea leaf or pinch of salt into it. / Gaughan, Mary -- If a person enters a house where a churning is being made, that person is expected to leave his hand on the churn or he will "take" the butter off it. -- It is considered unlucky to return to the house for something that has been forgotten. -- It is unlucky to meet a fairhaired woman on Christmas morning. -- Tá daoine ann agus creideann siad go bhfuil drochshuil ag daoine áirithe agus an páiste go gcuireann siad an droch shuil air tagann droch-rud air. -- Chonnaic mé bean agus chuir sí seile ar réal a fuair sí o stranséar (duine iasachta) / Caswell, A.G. -- Deirtear go bhfeictear 'bád taidhbhse' sul a mbionn tubaist ar an bhfairrge. -- Tá daoine ann agus oidhche lar Sheain nuair a bhíonn leime Chnámh ag meathlú gheibheann siad sméaróid ón leime agus fágann siad i measc na ngas bpátaí í chun go mbeidh prátaí maithe acu. / Gaughan, Mary -- If you meet a red haired woman when going on a journey, i is said that you will have bad luck. -- When a cow dies they say it is not lucky to bury her without skinning her and selling the hide. -- People believe that it is not lucky to give anything to a neighbour on May Day. -- It is considered lucky to have may flowers strewn in front of the door on May morning. / Goulden, Sadie -- People kill something (ie a chicken) to shed blood for St. Martin believeing "he'll take before not after"?? -- People believe it unlucky to pay bills on Monday. -- It is not right for two in one family to marry within a year. -- You shouldn't keep a white cock or your husband would die. -- Riddle -- Ink, aul under bank -- Why does a hen cross the road? / Boyers, Bertie -- The first person to take a can of water from a well on Michaelmas Day will haul the butter of the owner of the land in which the well is until May Day. -- It is not lucky for two in the one family to eat sheep's kidney. / Gaughan, Mary -- If you meet a magpie you'll have sorrow unless you spit and bow to it. -- It is not lucky to throw out dirty water etc on New Year's Day- you throw away your luck. -- I have a little red house tied up in a stall -- To make a magpie talk, split its tongue with a sixpence. / Goulden, Sadie -- Never cut a love bush or some misfortune will befall you. / Goulden, Sadie -- It is believed that a ferret's leavings will cure a whooping cough. -- It is considered unlucky to cut a hazel tree or a blackthorn bush. -- It is believed that if a horse's hair is put into water it will eventually turn into an eel. / Goulden, Gretta -- To Cure a Wart / Goulden, Sadie -- Another Cure for a Wart / Goulden, Sadie -- It is considered unlucky to lend salt. -- The breaker of a mirror will it is said have seven years of bad luck. -- You should never give a present of a purse without money, it is considered unlucky. / Goulden, Gretta -- You should never give a pen, knife or any such shape thing to anybody, without firsat sticking it into wood. / Goulden, Sadie -- You will have no luck with your first if you give away a clocking hen. -- You should never exchange a setting of eggs until your own are hatched else you will have no birds that year. -- On November's nigh a girl goes straight out blindfolded to a cabbage field and pulls a cabbage stalk. / Goulden, Sadie -- Tales of Superstitions and Legends from North Leitrim -- Puzzles / Allen, Robert -- The tongue of a weasel would take a thorn out of one's hand. / Boyers, Desmond -- It is considered unlucky to look at he new moon through glass.
description: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.