Pisreóga

A person should not put out ashes on New Year’s Day.
A person shouldn’t give milk on 1st May.
A person should never give out live coals on a Monday morning.
If a person goes into a house where they are churning he has to twist the churn or the butter wont gather. If the butter doesn’t gather they blame something of this sort.
When churning the people put a spark under the churn lest the fairies take the butter away.
They never give out milk to neighbors until the first churning is made after a cow calf’s.
When a cow calf’s she is “blessed” with a half burnt sod of turf held in a tonges [sic]. The sign of the cross is made with the tonges [sic] under the cow by putting the tonges [sic] here then under the cows udder etc. She is then finally blessed by tying a red rag on her tail.
A person should never eat wild fruit after November Day. The fairies play on them.
Cabbage is broken on November Day (white cabbage is bad to eat later in the year).
People used to be very careful about their cows May Day because the people used to milk cows and go to some house and drink it.
A person should never throw out water when a churning is being made or the butter cannot be gathered.
Taking dirt from cows hoofs on May morning for butter.

Dalgin, Co. Galway