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1. Local Customs on Halloween (continued)

   

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   with the clay, it is said, that she will be under the clay before the next hallowe'en.
   One girl gets a spool of thread and a kippen. She raises the kitchen window, and she throws the spool of thread out on the street. She keeps the end of the thread in her hand and starts winding the thread around the kippen. She keeps looking out the window until she has all the thread on the kippen. If any boy passes by the window while she is winding the thread, it is said that that boy will be her future husband.
   After this we get a ring, and all the girls sit around the fire. One girl stands in front of the crowd and gives around the ring. She gives the ring to some certain girl, then she asks the crowd who has the ring. The girl who fails to guess gets s slap of a belt on the hand. The girl who gets the ring gives it around the next time.
   When we are going home, we go into a garden of cabbage, and we pull a head of cabbage. The girl that gets a crooked stump that girl will be married to a boy with a

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      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
         1. Halloween (~934)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Áine Ní Searraigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballintadder, Co. Mayo

   Collector

   Cáitín Ní Chlosaic

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tonnagh, Co. Mayo

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Gabhláin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tonnagh, Co. Mayo