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Finger cut if no animal sacri- locality.
ficed - - - - Arran Isles.
Blood sprinkled on threshold,
etc. - - - - Co. Leitrim, Western Ire-
land generally. Arran Isles. Cross marked in blood on arm
of each member of the
family. (People " signed "
with blood safe from disease
for that year.) - - - Locality ? There should always be meat
in the house - - - Co. Wexford. Family eat sacrificed animal,
portion of animal to be
given to first beggar - Ihid.
III. Local Observance.
Pattern and fair held at Tintern - Co. Wexford.
IV. Current Legends.
St. Martin appeared to warn in- habitants not to go out to sea - Co. Wexford.
The saint was fed by a widow who sacrificed her child to provide meat for the meal. - - - Arran Isles.
ST. HUGH OF LINCOLN, 1 186-1200. K,
-ISOVEMBER I7TH.
Accession of Queen Elizabeth, 1558. J
locality. Kept as a holiday, 1824, at - - - The Temple.
The Exchequer. Westminster School. St. Paul's School.
ST. EDMUND THE KING, 841-870. {Name-fathev of Bury St. Edmund's), November 2oth.
locality. Name. " Dead Man's Day " 1 - - England.
Scotland. Ireland. Business. Date of bean-sowing, if the
moon be waning - - - . Tusser.
1 ? .Authority.
