School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)
- Location:
- An Cheathrú Riabhach, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Elizabeth Benson
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It was nothing unusual on that night to find a fine white head of cabbage tied to the latch of your door. It was a habit on that night to go to the cabbage plots and pull a head of cabbage and tie it to a neighbours doors.
It was supposed fairies roamed about on this night and no person would be seen out of doors after twelve o'clock on this night.
Neither would a person eat a blackberry after Halloween as it is said the fairies spit on them.
