School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)to that person. They burn nuts in the fire to see them hopping up the chimney.
- On Hallow e'en we play all sorts of (and ) tricks. We duck in a basin of water for sixpence or a shilling, and whoever takes the money out of the water in his mouth keeps it. People go around tying doors, taking shutters off shop windows, and putting them on other windows, and they knock at doors. The games we play on Hallow-e'en are we hang an apple out of the ceiling and whoever catches it in his mouth can keep it, and whoever takes a bite out of it gets a nut. If you peel the whole skin off an apple without breaking it, and throw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Cumiskey
- Gender
- Male
