School: Teach Chaoin (C.) (roll number 6681)

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1. Halloween and other Feast-Days (continued)

   

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   The girls used also get the first egg that a black pullet would lay and break it and get full of the shell of oatmeal, and full of the shell of salt and milk and make three little cakes, and eat one and leave one at the door and put the other under their pillows and they would dream during the night of the man they would marry.
   May Day
   On May day the young girls especially wash their faces in the morning dew. This they thought preserved their beauty from the ravages of the hot summer's sun. On that morning too a small haw-thorn brush is placed outside the front door. It is decorated with multi-coloured ribbons which flutter in the breeze. This custom is said to prevent the fairies or good people from entering the house. It is customary in Ireland to give milk to the neighbours who are without it but on May day not a drop is given lest the milk would go to the "cows horn".

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
         1. Halloween (~934)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Fallon

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mr John Harley

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Farmhill, Co. Mayo