BS: Happy Easter for the Irish!

Subject: Happy Easter for the Irish!
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 06:35 AM

Irish Easter Customs Just to be fair....

1.Clean house thoroughly Inside and out-whitewash applied.

2.Obtain New clothes.

3.Good Friday-do no work on the land just in the house.

4.Fast More than is Required on Good Friday.

5.Good Friday- Plant a small amount of crop seed to bring

blessing on it all.

6.Shed no blood on Good Friday,work no wood,hammer no

nail .

7.Maintain quiet on good Friday from Noon till three P.M.

8.Visit church-take off shoes-good Friday.Visit holy wells

and graveyards.

9.Do not fish with nets or lines on Good Friday no fishing

boat puts out to sea alternatively gather bia tragha-shore food-seaweed

and shellfish for the Main meal.

 10.Cut your hair on good Friday to prevent headaches

in the year to come-trim finger and toe nails.

 

 

11.Water from the holy well will have curative properties

on Good Friday.

 12.A child born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter

Sunday had gift of healing. (if a boy he should go into the ministry) die

on good Friday go right the heaven.

 13.Eggs laid on Good Friday-Mark with cross and

each eat one on Easter Sunday.Eggs Hatching on that day will produce healthy

chicks.

Easter Saturday

1.Have Holy water blessed.

2.Drink three sips of holy water each for health.Sprinkle

on everything for good luck.

3.Bring cinders from the Paschal fire to be blessed.

Easter Sunday

1.Butchers have mock funeral for a herring symbolizing end

to abstinence.-whip the herring,have a procession involving the herring-

 2.Go to church and then herring procession.

 3.Go up at sunrise to view the sun dancing with

joy.

 4,View the reflection of the sun in a pail of water

and move it so the sun appears to dance.

 5.Do something with eggs.Give them,color them

 6.Have a Cludog or cluideog ritual-children collect

and cook eggs and other food in a structure which they make on the edge

of the farm-roasted eggs.

 7.Brightly dressed Tobies go from place to place

to demand the eggs of Easter Singing, dancing dressed in bright colored

rags.

 8.Keep shells of Easter eggs for the May bush. 9.Roll

eggs to race them.-may be Presbyterian custom.

 10.Have feast on Easter-Kill a cow if you can-

 11.Take down the Spoilin meith na hlnide-little

piece of meat pinned up at lent and burn it giving house a rich smell

 12.Have a a Cake Dance. Cake being the prize for

best dancer.Easter cake dance-a pruthog

 13.Go to a "Sunday's" well-have a bonfire.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Easter for the Irish!
From: InOBU
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 07:28 AM

Easter Monday... take over the Post office. Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Easter for the Irish!
From: InOBU
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 07:32 AM

After recent constitutional changes, I am reminded of the Alexi Sales routeen... Here we are some 70 years after the Glorious Revolution, which over through for ever Tzarest chains, 50 years after the Great Patriotic War against Fascism, after decades of struggle to create the modern liberated human, and what are we left with, a tarted up version of the west!
CONRAD, serriously, knowing thee to be, as I am, an Irish Protestant... good of thee to join me in wishing all our countryfolk, a Happy Easter and a thoughtful Passover.
Peace and Joy, Larry