Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. The May Bush (Taghmon)

   

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   On the first day of May the children gather and dress up a sceach bush with flowers and ribbons and candles.
   They go up and down the street. Then they stop in principle street and dance around it for some hours.
   The people often throw them pennies and then the Cí [?] happens
   This custom is kept up here still.
   In many of the farmers houses in the locality they stick a Maybush in the dungheap, and they collect the shells of duck eggs - the blue

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script