School: Uragh (C.)
- Location:
- Uragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mc Caffrey
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- (continued from previous page)nor eggs on that day. Many of them fasted from meat during the 40 days of Lent and for that reason a roast goose was often provided for the supper on Shrove Tuesday.Halloween. Boxty is made for the Halloween supper and a ring is put into it.
The usual tricks-melting lead, burning nuts or sometimes corn touching the three saucers, listening at windows to hear (if a boy) a girls' name and (if a girl) a boy's name, which it is said will be that of the future husband or wife, tying door knockers, going 3 times round the hay-rick at midnight, are played. Before midnight the hearth is swept up the kitchen tidied and food and a vessel of water left on the table as refreshment for the spirits who are said to be released out of Purgatory for a time that night and allowed to return to their former homes. It is considered inadvisable to be out late that night.
The fairy folk are holding revels and the puca is riding around on a white horse. He blows his breath(continues on next page)
