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Penny for a maybush!!!

  • 01-05-2012 2:03pm
    #1
    recyclops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭recyclops


    SO i bring this up in work and get alot of weird looks,

    Basically a tradition of decorating a maybush and going door to door to collect money.

    Did others do this or was i some kind of weird child :eek: seems nobody has heard of this


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  • #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    *throws a weird look at the OP


  • #3
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Maybe if you shaved the maybush you'd get a bit more for it?;)


  • #4
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    we done something similar to this in december with a tree but we got presents put underneath it


  • #5
    Bruce Unkempt Necktie
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Bruce Unkempt Necktie


    I don't think anyone is going to pay you to decorate your bush, sorry...


  • #6
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    what the hell is a maybush?


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  • #7
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,120 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    FatherLen wrote: »
    what the hell is a maybush?

    http://www.ouririshheritage.org/page_id__168_path__.aspx


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Is the new version something about a Fiscal Treaty because we had a lad calling around our house yesterday talking about that. We told him to feck off.


  • #9
    noddyone2
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭noddyone2


    Decorating a maybush Whitethorn) is still done in some country areas. I think it goes back to pagan time. Never heard about the money collecting, though.


  • #10
    Anyone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Anyone


    Is this a vajazzle thread?


  • #11
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Assemble the mob and gather the witch burning utensils.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #12
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭policarp


    Another May tradition was to decorate an altar in the classroom with fresh flowers which the schoolchildren brought in.


  • #13
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    My old primary school Principal said that May 1st used to known as Nettlesome day, where people would grab nettles and sting someone (siblings/friends) by swiping the nettle at them, usually back of the legs. I'm fairly certain that that tradition has died out.

    Your is probably on the verge of it, i have never heard of it but it sounds similar to The Wren which still goes on down in West Cork and Kerry on St. Stephens Day. You decorate a holly bush, dirty your face and go from door to door. Singing "The Wren" is compulsory. Made 200 Punts one year! :D


  • #14
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    podgemonster wrote: »
    My old primary school Principal said that May 1st used to known as Nettlesome day, where people would grab nettles and sting someone (siblings/friends) by swiping the nettle at them, usually back of the legs. I'm fairly certain that that tradition has died out.

    i think that tradition did die out after the people who practiced it went to prison for child abuse


  • #15
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    noddyone2 wrote: »
    Decorating a maybush Whitethorn) is still done in some country areas..

    bleedin' cluchies


  • #16
    EmatoelDiablo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭EmatoelDiablo


    Is this in any way similar to vajazzling?


  • #17
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    EmatoelDiablo wrote: »
    Is this in any way similar to vajazzling?

    yeah the post about using nettles is how you do it


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