School: Edenagully
- Location:
- Edennagully, Co. Cavan
- Teachers: S. Ó Cléirigh C. Ó Baoighealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 323
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- Hallow E'en falls on the last day of October. A day or two before Hallow Ee'n people buy apples. On that night they get a crock of water and put it in the middle of the floor and they tie their hands behind their backs and they have to take the apple up out of the water with their mouth.
Another trick is played, hanging apples from the roof of the house and they have to jump for the apples with their mouths. They also put nuts in the fire to crack them.
On Hallow Een people go out and hide gates and sometimes hang them on the tops of trees.
A boy and a girl put two nuts near the fire and if they jump towards one another the pair will be married soon, an if they jump apart the pair will never marry one another. Halloween night people get a porringer and make a hole on the bottom of the porringer. Then they get a rush and rub resin on it. Then they draw the(continues on next page)
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- William Curtis
- Gender
- Male
