A little Halloween Food Folklore for with your first Saturday mug of tea: Báirín Breac (Barmbrack) is a traditional Irish fruit loaf made with tea and sometimes whisky soaked dried fruit, similar to Bara Brith. It also has charms when served at this time of year- a pea meant you’d remain single; a matchstick meant you were doomed to an unhappy marriage; cloth meant poverty on the horizon, the coin prophesied good fortune or riches.
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Just like the later Santa Claus, Frau Gaur rode through the air on a sled at wintertide, and distributed gifts and punishments according to her own moral standards.
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Halloween food folklore for your tea break: How to attract a husband: You must first steal a turnip (it can’t be bought/given) & peel it in one continuous strip & then bury the peel in the garden on All Hallows Eve. The turnip must then be hung behind the door & you must go & sit beside the fire. The next man through the door will bear the same name as your future husband.
I’m not suggesting everyone wants a husband but in days gone by they were a little more indispensable #folklore@folklore