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   that the fairies are out. These are all Pístrógas and nobody should believe in them.

   Hugh Reynolds, Mains St., Ballinamore

   

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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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   Charlie Comerford

   Gender

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   Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim