November's Night
23rd June 1938
On November's night we all get a couple of stones of apples in Balla. We get a basin of water and we stick a nail in an apple so that it will go to the bottom of the basin. Each person on turn tries to catch the apple with his mouth. If he can catch it he may eat it.
We also tie an apple to a string and we tie the sting to the line, then some-one keeps hitting the string and we must try to catch the apple in our mouths.
My mother makes a nice cake for the supper on that night. The boys go round through the village that night kicking cabbage.
“COLLECTOR; Annie M. Reilly; female
INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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