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School: Stracarne (roll number 16343)

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Sragarn, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
P. Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 452

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    they dream of that night, and if they dream of nobody at all they think they will never be married.
    Others get an old hat and write down a lot of names on small pieces of paper, and put all those names into the hat, and whoever you pull out three times in succession or the one you pull out oftenst you will be married to that one. They put an X on one piece, and an O on another. If you take out the X you will be married to a stranger, and if you pull out the O you will never be married.
    The old people say it is not right to throw out water on this night, because all the poor souls be
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mc Guinness
    Gender
    Female