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Category Archives: Folk charms
May Day flowers
Today is May Day. For many people it’s International Workers’ Day, but it’s also the ancient spring festival of Bealtaine, celebrated during my childhood as the beginning of an entire month dedicated to Mary. And even though I’m living in … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, Folk charms, Folk traditions, Folklore, Ireland, Irishness
Tagged Bealtaine, fairies, May altars, May Day, May flowers
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A reflective moment on the entangled world of research
‘Take a sharp needle,’ he said, ‘and stick it in under the collar of your coat, and not one of them will be able to have power on you.’ This is from a story that John Millington Synge recorded on … Continue reading
Posted in Folk charms, Folk traditions, Material culture, Research, hmmm, Writing
Tagged Aran Islands, entangled, folk traditions, Hodder, pins and needles, Playboy of the Western World, Synge, Writing
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A story for the night that’s in it – take care on Halloween
They say that the fairies are happiest on Midsummer Eve when the bonfires are lit, but that on Halloween they’re at their gloomiest for it’s the start of the winter. This is the night when the veil between our world … Continue reading
Posted in Folk charms, Folk traditions, Folklore, Halloween
Tagged fairies, Halloween, Meath folk tales, National Folklore Collection, The Stolen Child, The Waterboys, Yeats
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On curing warts
I found a wart on my finger today. Not hideously disfiguring, but I’d rather it gone. And the first thought I had after I’d found it was, ‘It’s a pity I’m not home, I could go down to the jealous … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, Folk charms, Folk traditions, Ireland
Tagged cure for warts, folk beliefs, folk cures, folk traditions, jealous man and woman, newtown, trim
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Keeping the traditions alive – St Brigid’s crosses
The month of February is associated with St Brigid, one of Ireland’s patron saints, and whose feast day is celebrated on 1 February. She was a contemporary of St Patrick, renowned for her holiness and goodness. One of the legends about … Continue reading
Posted in Folk charms, Folk traditions, Folklore, Ireland, Migration
Tagged folk charms, folk traditions, folklore, Irish traditions, St Brigid, St Brigid crosses
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Don't forget your shovel 