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1. Halloween Customs and Games (continued)

   

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   be just in a big dish on the centre of the table and then the bean-a-tighe would put her wedding-ring in it before all their eyes and stir it up well. All the young people would gather around the dish and start eating the colcannon like mad to see which of them would get the ring. Whichever of them would get the ring would be married inside of a year. There would be a great clapping and cheering when the ring would be found. I often heard my grandmother saying that Halloween was the greatest night of the year in her time. There were three farmer's houses here close to each other and two of them would be vacant on that night. They would be all in the one house, and the

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script