Pisreogas - Births

Abstract: Story collected by a student at Lettercran school (Lettercran, Co. Donegal) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 1030/3/12

 Lettercran [Vol. 1030, Chapter 0003]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Donegal Schools

Story text

transcribed at

 

Pisreogas - Births  [duchas:4389561]

1. If you are born in day time you will see no ghosts.
2. Born on Monday fair of face
Born on Tuesday full of grace.
Born on Wednesday full of woe
Born on Thursday far to go.
Born on Friday loving and giving
Born on Saturday work hard for your living.
But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day
is bonney and wise and gay.
3. If a woman in child meets a man with a hare with the tail on it, the child will have a hare’s lip.	
4. It is supposed to be unlucky for a woman in child to cross a grave-yard, it will have [rut]-feet.
5. If a woman in child is struck with anything that child will have the track of that thing on it.
6. If a woman in child mocks a person on any deformity, the child will be afflicted with the same deformity.
7. If a woman in child gets a fright the child will be afflicted.
8. It is lucky to borrow a cradle for the first child.
9. The mother should not attend a christening.

Resource description

Origin information
Lettercran, Co. Donegal
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 212
Volume 1030
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Peadar S. Ó Duibhidhe.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Childbirth--Folklore
Birth--Breith
School location
Lettercran Lettercran Templecarn Tirhugh Donegal
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4477742
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 1030/3/12

Suggested credit
"Pisreogas - Births"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4477742>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Peadar S. Ó Duibhidhe.
Funding
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.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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