16. BF Whit Sunday

Narrator: John Ward
From the Celtic Calendar archive saluting all of the folklore associated with the calendar year in Ireland.

Lady Jane Wilde doesn't mince here words in her evaluation of it: 

Whitsuntide is a very fatal and unlucky time. Especially beware of water then, for there is an evil spirit in it, and no one should venture to bathe, nor to sail a boat for fear of being drowned; nor to go on a journey where water has to be crossed. And everything in the house must be sprinkled with holy water at Whitsuntide to keep away the fairies, who at this season are very active and malicious, and bewitch the cattle, and carry off young children, and come up from the sea to hold strange midnight revels, when they kill with their fairy darts the unhappy mortal who crosses their path and pries at their mysteries.'

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