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Reidar Christiansen defines fairy faith as a “complex of beliefs connected with the existence on earth of another race side by side with man but normally invisible to him” (1971-1973, 95). In an Irish context, this native vernacular religious system encompasses not only belief in unseen supernatural beings, like fairies and ghosts, but also uncanny
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My blackthorn shillelagh was obtained for the practice of Doyle-style bataireacht, a tradition of two-handed, Irish[1] stick fighting, which was passed through the male lineage of the Doyle family, beginning in the west of Ireland and continuing in the Mi’kmaw territory of Ktaqmkuk[2] after the family’s emigration. With his father’s deathbed permission and a drive
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NFC S 622: 118 “The name Garland Sunday is used generally at the present time and we very often hear, in these districts on the week previous to the last Sunday in July one youth putting the question to another, ‘Are you going to Garlic,’ ‘Garlic’ being a corruption of Garland.On this day every householder







