Scoil: Traceystown (uimhir rolla 12156)
- Suíomh:
- Baile Uí Threasaigh Thiar, Co. Loch Garman
- Múinteoir: Proínséas Bean Uí Phearáil
Tagairt chartlainne
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Ar an leathanach seo
- May-Day or Bealtaine was one of the great festivals kept in pagan Ireland for it was then that the druids lighted the sacred fires in honour of Baal, the sun-god, hence the name, Baal-tinne so Bealtine was given to this month. An old custom still prevails in South of Ireland of making children and cattle pass between two fires in order to purify them and safeguard them from evil.
As fairies and witches were supposed to have great power at this time children and cattle milk and butter, had to be specially shielded from their influence.
Fire was supposed to be one of the elements over which the fairies had no power, and it was a custom to place a spent coal under the cradle and another under the churn, for if, by chance,(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
- Bailitheoir
- Statia Kehoe
- Inscne
- Baineann
- Aois
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- Seoladh
- An Ráithín, Co. Loch Garman
- Faisnéiseoir
- Mrs Walsh
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- Baineann
- Aois
- 62
- Seoladh
- An Ráithín, Co. Loch Garman
