School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)

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1. Festival Customs (continued)

   

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   On Easter Sunday morning people always have eggs for the breakfast. They are also eaten at dinner and at tea. This is a movable feast.
   On Whit Sunday and on Whit Monday all the children are warned not to go near the river. There are often drowning accidents on those two days.
   On St. John's Day in every village there is a bone-fire. There is a dance where the bone-fire is held. This feast is held every year on the twenty-third of June.
   On St. Martin's Day a cock is killed or some other fowl. The door and the four corners of the house are sprinkled with its blood.
   On Hallowe'en many tricks re played. a string is suspended from the ceiling and an apple is put on to the end of the string. All the children of the house try to take a bite out of the apple, with their hands behind

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Fhíneachtaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   A. Finerty

   Age

   53

   Address

   Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon