Catalogue of Brand Mafo'ial,
77
Augury of luck in love from burning named nuts {F.L. R. iv. loi)
Ditto, from " building the house " of 24 holly-twigs, named and tied in pairs, set round live coal ; ob- serve which catches fire first.
Ditto, from counting thorns in holly-leaf, grains in head of corn, pebbles in chance handful.
Husband's name discovered from first name, or voice, overheard while holding g grains of oats in the mouth
Augury of fate from shape of
melted lead dropt through
key-loop into water - Ditto, from touching plates
containing coin, etc., hidden
in cake or colcannon. To procure dreams of the destined lover :
Take an egg from the nest in a three-cornered hand- kerchief, roast, eat shell and all, never touching with hand -
Boil a hen's first egg hard, eat in three bites with- out salt
Make cakes of egg, meal, and salt, eat
Steal a salt herring and cat it raw - - - -
Eat a herring, bones and all ; look in the glass at midnight
Put the first bit, middle bit, and last bit of supper under the pillow -
Put a distaff under a man's pillow - ■ - -
Queen's County
Co. Cork, mon .
Co. Roscom-
Leitrim. Queen's Co.
Leitrim, Roscommon.
Connaught.
Ibid.
Leitrim.
Con naught.
Mayo.
Connaught.
Ibid.
