School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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- It was an old custom with the people of Callan that if they looked at the mirror, at 12 o'clock on Hallow Eve night, with the lights of a candle and the person, whether man or woman, would see their future husband or wife, and it was also a custom, at the sunset, to have all the children to dance around the May bush, and sing, then to pluck which ever bit of May they would grip blind-folded and to keep it till next May day for a lucky charm.It was also a custom to burn old rags, and wood in the evening and to gather a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liathán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baunta, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Pat Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 80
- Address
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny