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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

May 3.]

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The Highlands.

May 3.]

The Highlands.

Pennant, in his Tour in Scotland (1790, vol. i. p. 111) says that a Highlander never begins anything of consequence on the day of the week on which the 3rd of May falls, which he styles La Sheachanna na bleanagh, or the dismal day.

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