School: Stillorgan (roll number 2472)
- Location:
- Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
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- The fairies exercise a powerful influence for evil at Bealtaine, or May time, so as a preservative against their malice and the fairy darts, which at this season wound and kill, It was the custom on May morning at sunrise, to bleed the cattle and taste of the blood mingled with milk. Men and women were also bled, and their blood was sprinkled on the ground, but this practice, however, died out, even in the remote. West.
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- Collector
- Eamon Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stillorgan, Co. Dublin