School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)On this day also all those witches were supposed to renew their powers.
On November Eve there are several tricks played such as ducking for apples in a basin of water, and placing three plates on a table with a ring on one, water on another and clay on the other. Then you would be blindfolded and have to walk to the table and leave your hand on one of the plates. The plates would have been changed while you were coming to the table. If you left your hand on the table with the ring, it was a sign that you were going to get married. If you left your hand on the plate with the clay it was a sign that you were going to die.
These tricks were all played in view of finding out your future.
- Collector
- Patty Greene
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs M.A. Tansey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheeane, Co. Roscommon
