Volume: CBÉ 0106

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1. Halloween Customs and Games (continued)

   

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   married after some years, and her husband had a scar on one side of his face. They didn't get on very well together, fighting almost all the time. One day the girl told him that he was intended for her anyhow, as it was he that came into her house and turned her shift on Hallowe'en. When he heard this he flew into an awful rage. "I remember the night well" says he "I was suddenly taken off the road as I was walking home and brought to your house by some invisible force. When I was going over one ditch, there was an old bell hook on the top of it and my face came against it, and I got an awful cut. That was six months healing and that wasn't the only cut I got that night

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script