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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 169

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    New Year's Eve.
    Candles are lighted in every room in the house.
    New Year's Night
    Candles are lighted in every room in the house.
    Shrove Tuesday.
    Taking all the young men & maids to "Skellig" because they are not married. Also feast Pancakes in every house.
    May Day
    Dance round Maypole.
    June 24th
    Bonfires lit all over country
    Hallowe'en
    Burning nuts & if 2 named nuts jump together then that man & maid will be married. Cracking nuts. Barm-brack for tea containing ring (1st married) rag (poverty) 3d. (wealth) stick (cross to husband) pea - (travel over water). Snapping apples in tub of water or snapping apples suspended from ceiling with a bit of chord.
    From New Year's day on the days get long by 'a cock's stride".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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