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School: Cannistown (roll number 15104)

Location:
Kennastown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Ghiobúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 278

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    1. If you hang a head of cabbage on the door you will be married to the first person (!) who comes in.
    2. Cracking nuts. You name two persons who might get married, and you put the nuts on the hot hearthstone _ naming each.
    If they jump together the two will be married. If the nuts jump apart the two will quarrel.
    3. Put water and clay and a ring in saucers and place on table. Blindfold a person and lead him or her to the table.
    Let the person "feel" for one of the saucers. If the clay is touched the person will die before the year twelve months is out. If the ring, the person will marry. If the water, he will go over sea.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Halloween (~934)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Mac Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grange, Co. Meath