School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)

Location:
Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 362

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 362

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
  2. XML Page 362
  3. XML “All Souls' Night”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. All souls' night.
    Long ago on all souls' night every one would leave on a big fire. They say the dead come back in the middle of the night.
    The old people say that if you look in the ashes in the morning and see a track of a heel there will someone dead before the next souls' night..if there is a track of toes that is a sin/gn
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English