School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 454
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- A great many pishogues are connected with May Eve. It was an old custom to go and skim a neighbour's well and so take all the cream of his milk for the year and he would not be able to make butter. People wouldn't like to gave away new milk on May Eve too lest the butter would be taken, and if they did so they'd put a pinch of salt in the milk to prevent you taking it. Many people would put a pinch of salt in the milk at any time to stop anybody taking the butter. A hare was often times seen milking cows, and it was supposed to be a woman in that form stealing the butter. A farmer seen a hare milking his cows one night fired at it and wounded it in the leg and an old woman near by had a bad leg next day. If people could not make butter they would get a green stone and grease it with butter and put it under the barrel and they would get the butter back again. Other people had this remedy to get back the butter - go to a graveyard between twelve and one o'clock at night and get a dead man's hand and put it under the barrel andthey would always be able to make butter. It is unlucky to put new shoes upon a table.
- Collector
- David Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caheragh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Julia Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Caheragh, Co. Kerry
