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1. May Eve Customs (ar lean)

   

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   one is permitted to carry a lighted sod out of the house, or to borrow fire in any way. And no strange hand was allowed to milk the cows, for if the first can was filled in the name of the devil, there would be no more milk that year for the family, it would be all secretly taken away by the fairies.

   The first three days of May were very dangerous to cattle for the fairies had then great power given them of the Evil one, therefore they were well guarded by lighted fires, and branches of rowan, and the milkmaid made the sign of the Cross, after milking with the froth of the milk.

   A young student was nearly killed one time by the people, for they saw him walking up and down on May morning on the grass while he read aloud from a book in some strange language, and they concluded that he was trying to bewitch the herbs of grass that are for healing.

   Josie Dwyer
   Ballinahinch

   

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   Ballynahinch, Co. Tipperary