1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cluain Tuirc (C.)

School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

Location:
Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 164

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 164

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
  2. XML Page 164
  3. XML “An Old Story - Witchcraft or Butterswitching”
  4. XML “Story - Sham Hero”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. An Old Story - Witchcraft or Butterswitching (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    warm. Just then my grandfather saw a neighbouring woman peep in on the window. She went away again and inside of fifteen minutes there were three different messengers from her house wanting the loan of some article which was not given. Inside the hour the churning was finished and at least four times the usual yield of butter returned. Never after during his life time was there any loss of butter.
    The mysterious visitor said the butter was taken off a sand wist which was used to clean the churn in those days. My grandfather said that his old housekeeper at that time said she remembered this particular woman lifting the sandwisp off the floor before the butter was lost.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit