School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)

Location:
Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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  1. Hallow E'en is on the 31st October.
    The children generally spend the night eating nuts and apples and playing games.
    They usually have a cake with a ring button, thimble and a threepenny piece in it. If you get the ring you will be married first. If a boy gets the button he will be a bachelor. If a girl gets the thimble she will be an old Maid.
    They have other cakes too but the special ones are barm bracks, apple-cakes and apple-dumpling.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    George Hepburn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Lettergull, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Hepburn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 48
    Address
    Lettergull, Co. Donegal
  2. Long ago the people used to do a lot of mischief one one another at Hallow E'en. One of their tricks was to get a kale stalk and cut a hole up the inside of it and put tow in one end of the stalk. Then they dropped in a red cinder and put more tow in the other end then the held one end to the keyhole and blew through the other end
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