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1. St Stephen's Day (continued)

   

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   gets six-pence. So many either singly or in batches ask you to honour the wren: that you wont find it convenient to give more- and to refuse anyone- Well you cant do that either.
   The wren is "hunted" on Christmas day-i.e. they try to catch him for St Stephen day. It is not often they succeed. The thatch of the house is searched in the evening-
   Wrens often sleep under the thatch i.e. a hole by the eve- run of the thatch or where the eve-run would be.

   

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   Few game are played on November's night, and these seem to be modern and not of native origins. But 'tis a common belief that the dead walk the land on that night and re-visit the scenes of their living days. And that the souls in Purgatory are

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   Micheál Ó Gealbháin

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