School: Athboy
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Néill Tomás Ó Domhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 241
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- Ceremonies and Customs of Halloween Besides the Usual1. Yarrow is gathered and put into the right stocking and tied with the left garter. You dream of your future wife or husband. You cannot talk from midnight until morning.2. Connect knockers of two doors with threads and with another thread keep operating the knockers.3. Tying of neighbouring doors with ropes or blocking of doors with stones or wheels of carts.4. Lifting of gates and leaving them a distance away.5. Tying a leaf of cabbage over the door where it will hit visitors on the head.6. Lighting of candle on a turnip which has been cut out in the shape of a face.7. Tying a bucket of water to a latch of a door. When the door opens the bucket falls.8. Dressing a sweeping brush like a man. When the door opens it falls in.
