School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Clement
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- (continued from previous page)Another game is they put red-pepper and cotton in under the doors and keyholes and they set fire to the cotton and red-pepper with a match and it makes everyone sneeze.
Another one is they get a turnip and they cut the image of a face on it, then they put a lighted candle into it and they put it on a wall to frighten the people.
It is also said that on Hallow Eve the Púca poisons the blackberries and it is not right to eat them.- Collector
- Mary Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Conlon
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford