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 Catalogue of Brand Material. 169

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.