School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)

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   each field. The doing of this is supposed to bring good luck.
   Long ago people made a fire of turf on the roadside and they threw a bone into it and then danced around it.

   

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2. November Eve

   

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   People do not practice the old customs nowadays as much as they used longago. They got a tub of water and they put an apple floating in it. They all knelt down around the tub with their hands behind their backs. They began to dive for the apple and whoever got it ate it. They made a wooden cross and they put a lighted candle and an apple on each alternative beam. The cross was put spinning around and each tried to grab the apple in his mouth. Very often the candle was grabbed instead of the apple. Then the grown-up unmarried girls sat around the fire. One girl took the key of

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