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School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)

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Monknewtown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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    in every house on Hallow Eve. There is a ring put in it and it is said that the person who gets it will be married soon. There is always a piece of paper rolled around the ring and sometimes there is a writting on it.
    Another custom is peeling an apple and not breaking the skin and to throw it across your shoulders and see whose initials it would form. Another custom is putting two nuts on the bar of the grate and giving them names. If the two nuts shot off together they would be married but if only one shot off they would not be married. Another custom is to melt lead and drop it on the floor to see whose initials it would form.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Olive Taaffe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sheepgrange, Co. Louth