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1. Halloween Customs and Games (continued)

   

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   then start to eat it in front of a looking-glass, and they would see the boy they were going to marry by their side in the glass or looking over their shoulder. Another way of playing this game was by putting the unbroken skin of the apple or or turnip down their backs inside the clothes and it would come out on the floor, and when they would look around it would form the initials of the boy they were going to marry. Another game the girls used to have was going to the river on Hallowe'en night and pulling their shift three time against the flows of the river and doing it in the name of the Devil. Then they would go home and place the shift on the back of

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script