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1. Wake Games (continued)

   

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   it stops spinning is the biggest rogue in the county, All eyes then would be placed on the spinning bottle, until it would stop, and then the laugh would commence. Whoever the bottle pointed at must spin it, and he would say "whoever this bottle points at when it stops spinning, is the ugliest devil in the world" Then the fun would be when the bottle stopped. This of course was a very harmless game.
   The other game "guess" was played as follows. The men would be sitting side by side, and one of them would turn his back to the other. The other man then would put his two hands up on this man's back and two of three of his finder pointed upwards. Then he would

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir