School: Fedamore (B.) (roll number 14068)

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1. Festival Customs - Halloween (continued)

   

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   first. Whoever gets the thimble will be married to a tailor.

   The Fire. The hearth must be swept very clean a chair at each side of the hearth and the tongs at the right hand side and a bucket of spring water inside. This is all done for the poor souls.

   

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2. Festival Customs - St Martin's Day

   

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   "Nine nights and a night we won't speak of From Sulie-night to Night of Martin." St Martin fell into a mill on the 11th of November and was cut up in pieces. And since that day the mills are not working on that day in honour on his death. It is also said that there is a goose or some fowl killed on that night and a rag is dipped in the blood and kept for a cure for a headache.

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         1. Feast of St Martin (~177)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Liam Mac Conmara

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   Collector

   Pádraig Mac Eochadha

   Gender

   Male

   Collector

   Pádraig Ó Scanláin

   Gender

   Male

   Collector

   Seán Ó Maoldhomhnaigh

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   Male