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School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)

Location:
Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 200

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  1. The Taking of Butter by a Woman who Changed into a Hare

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    Long ago, there was a servant boy from Killorglin hired in Tralee market, by a farmer from Ardfert, and when he went there he found out that there was another servant buy in the house, who had been there for a long time and who seemed to know everything about the house and the people who lived there.
    Well, that night, both the servant boys slept in a settlebed in the kitchen, and it happened to be May night and the servant boy, who was longest in the house, told the new servant boy, that the mistress of the house used to get up every May night and roll herself in the feet water
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Anne Corcoran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Knockaderry, Co. Kerry