1. Halloween Customs: Fuarag

A dish of whipped cream and oatmeal eaten at Halloween. It is served in a large communal bowl. A ring and a coin is hidden. Whoever gets the ring will be the first to marry and the one who gets the coin will be rich.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/hcustom/oatmeal.html - 3k - 29 Oct 2012

2. Recipes: Flummery

Flummery: Oatmeal, water, white sugar, orange-flower water. Take three large handfuls of oatmeal and steep overnight in cold water ; drain through a sieve. Add water, one large spoonful of white sugar, two spoonfulls of orange-flower water and boil until thick; stirring well. Eat with wine, cider, milk, or sugar – The Olde Cookery Book.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/easter/mayday/flummery.html - 3k - 13 Feb 2009

3. St. Patrick’s Customs: Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee was invented in the 1940’s by chef Joe Sheridan at Foyne’s restaurant in County Clare. Mr. Sheridan’s version is made with Irish Mist liqueur. Legend says the recipe for Irish Mist is 1,200 years old and is the Heather Ale of Celtic folklore. Heather is a sacred flower.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/saintpatrick/scustom/irishcoffee.html - 4k - 13 Feb 2009

4. May Day Customs: Bannoch Bealtainn

Bannoch Bealtainn: Scotland: An oatmeal cake with square knobs that is baked over the Bealtaine fire and marked with a cross on the side. The bannocks are rolled down the hillside by children. If the bannock lands at the bottom with the cross down it is a sign of bad luck.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/easter/mayday/bannoch.html - 4k - 13 Feb 2009

5. All Soul’s Day Customs: Soulcakes

A spiced oatmeal porridge cake with butter and strunt liquor given in payment for prayers for the dead. They are placed in a heap and given out. enevek: Cornish for soulful.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/hcustom/soulers.html - 7k - 29 Oct 2012

6. Christine O’Keeffe’s May Day Customs Page

May Day Customs: Table of Contents.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/easter/mayday/index.html - 3k - 07 Nov 2012

7. Halloween Recipes: Pancakes, Sowens

Halloween Recipes: Pumpkin Pancakes, Sowen: Soul Cake.
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/reci/pancakes.html - 4k - 11 Oct 2013

8. Weston A Price: Outer Hebrides

Reproduced below are only a few of the 134 plates in Weston A Price D.D.S. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, NY: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. © 1939
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/price.html - 18k - 13 Feb 2009

9. Christine’s Faery List: Cundry

Cundry (Black Maiden): Welsh nine-fold goddess signifying the Triple Goddess in triplicate form like the nine Muses of Greece who is the sister of Myrddin. She lives at the Castle of Wonders on a lofty mountain. Inside is chessboard that plays itself. As the Black Maiden she is a beautiful woman with raven hair, jet-black eyebrows, red cheeks, skin as white as crystal-snow, and
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/faery/goddess/cundry.html - 10k - 21 Oct 2010

10. Christine’s Faery List: Colm

Coulm
URL: http://www.tartanplace.com/faery/goddess/colm.html - 4k - 03 Nov 2010

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