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1. Irish Traditions (ar lean)

   

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   first can was filled in the name of the Devil, there would be no more milk that year for the family, it would be all secretly taken away by the fairies. The first three days of May were very dangerous to cattle for the fairies had their great power given them of the evil One, therefore they were well guarded by lighted fires and branches of rowan, and the milkmaid made the sign of the Cross after milking with the froth of the milk.
   During the first three days of May also it was necessary to take great precuations against the fairies entering the house for if once they gained admittance they worked mischief. They would come disguised as old women or wayfarers, in order to steel a burning coal, or to carry off the herbs of power, that were always gathered on May morning with the dew on them. But the best preventive against fairy or demon power, was to scatter primroses on the treshold, for no fairy could pass the flower, and the

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