At May Eve a snail is picked and put into a clean metal pot and covered close during the night by the young unmarried females, chiefly Roman Catholic, who in the morning expect to see the name of the man, to whom they will be married, written by the trail of the snail.
'Folklore in Maghera Parish* by O. Davies, in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, v8, 1945.
*County Derry.
Taken from the 1835 O.S. Memoirs for Co. Derry.
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