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School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
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Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 392

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  1. Hallow Eve (continued)

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    that the fairies are out. These are all Pístrógas and nobody should believe in them.
    Hugh Reynolds, Mains St., Ballinamore
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Hallow Eve

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    Hallow Eve falls on the 31th. October. There is a number of customs carried out on that night such as, get a mirror and an apple go out to a byre put the apple on the mirror then start combing if you are to be married it is said that your intended will come and eat the apple.
    Get a red apple, stick nine pins in it, put it under your pillow and you will dream of your intended. Get a withered cabbage leaf, put it over your door, and the first man or woman who passes under it, will
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charlie Comerford
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim