{"id":535,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:40:32","slug":"halloween-beliefs-and-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallowe&#8217;en Beliefs and Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Hallowe&#8217;en Beliefs and Customs<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-535-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/halloween-beliefs-and-customs.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Hallowe&#8217;en Beliefs and Customs.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 840111.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> lore.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 15\/11\/1983.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> evening class.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The p\u00faca is an outcast fairy, who is trying to get back into the fairy fold &#8211; he hasn&#8217;t done enough evil. Hallowe&#8217;en isn&#8217;t for kids! It&#8217;s the druidish new year. You go out into a neighbour&#8217;s field, take a turnip or a head of cabbage, throw it (gently) at a neighbour&#8217;s door, and when you do that, the p\u00faca cannot go near that door. It&#8217;s a way of wishing people lots of fruit (crops) in the coming year. People also used to build bonfires and put the cattle around them for the coming year. They would also put cinders from the fire into the crops, to prevent the p\u00faca from interfering with them.<\/p>\n<p>On Hallowe&#8217;en night there would be games in the houses. Joe knew of a girl who made the mistake of looking in a mirror after midnight on Hallowe&#8217;en, and she dropped dead. People think she saw the devil looking over her shoulder. People are blindfolded, and if you put your hands on someone of the opposite gender, this would be the person you would marry in the coming year. But above all there was the risk this night that the fairies would take a child away from its parents.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody opened their door after midnight for fear of the C\u00f3\u00edste Bodhar &#8211; the Deaf Coach: you don&#8217;t hear it, but you feel it. It&#8217;s pulled by four headless horses, and driven by two headless men; inside the coach there is the chief p\u00faca with his head under his arm and a jug of blood in his right hand ready to throw into the doorway of anybody who was unwise enough to leave their door open &#8211; in nine months, everybody in that house would be dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>For a short account in Irish of Hallowe&#8217;en customs, see Hartmann, Hans, Tom\u00e1s de Bhaldraithe and Ruair\u00ed \u00d3 hUiginn (eds.), Airne\u00e1n: Ein Sammlung von Texten aus Carna, Co. na Gaillimhe, Max Niemeyer Verlag T\u00fcbingen (1996), vol 1, lines 9283-96. The following summary is given: &#8216;Not much takes place on Hallowe&#8217;en nowaday, but previously, about 20 or 30 years ago, the young lads would be busy gathering the last fruits of the earth, e.g. mangles, swedes and cabbage, and throwing them about, beating and breaking doors with the intention of frightening the people. The reason for such activities was the belief that the fairies used to change their living quarters on Hallowe&#8217;en and go into other places. The people believed that in that night the &#8216;good people&#8217; used to be rampant and do all kinds of damage.&#8217; (vol 2, p. 149).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seanchas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}