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1. Halloween

   

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   Hallow E'en is on the 31st October.
   The children generally spend the night eating nuts and apples and playing games.
   They usually have a cake with a ring button, thimble and a threepenny piece in it. If you get the ring you will be married first. If a boy gets the button he will be a bachelor. If a girl gets the thimble she will be an old Maid.
   They have other cakes too but the special ones are barm bracks, apple-cakes and apple-dumpling.

   

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2. Old Halloween Customs

   

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   Long ago the people used to do a lot of mischief one one another at Hallow E'en. One of their tricks was to get a kale stalk and cut a hole up the inside of it and put tow in one end of the stalk. Then they dropped in a red cinder and put more tow in the other end then the held one end to the keyhole and blew through the other end

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   Topics

   1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
         1. Oíche Shamhna (~934)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   George Hepburn

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Leitir Goill , Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   John Hepburn

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 48

   Address

   Leitir Goill , Co. Dhún na nGall