Scoil: Castlecary

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1. Churning (ar lean)

   

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   with a butter spade, and the milk is washed out of it. The butter is then salted and put into prints. The butter milk is used for feeding calves, or baking bread, or feeding pigs.
   Old people tell us that horse stumps used to be tied to the tails of the cows for fear of the milk and the butter going away by people with an evil eye, and that it was unlucky to put a red hot coal under the churn before you give the first brash to the milk for nothing could happen then. When a cow calves the first milk is called basting milk, and people always spill a little of the basting milk under the cow for the fairies. Some people would even throw some under a fairy thorn for to bring luck on the milk.
   An old story is told about a servant girl who spilled a can ful of basting milk by accident and her mistress scolded her greatly. The girl said the milk would not be lost as the fairies would get it.
   The mistress said "to hell with the fairies," and the cow never gave milk afterwards.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Arthur Peoples

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Castlecary, Co. Donegal