School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)mother often told her a story about May-Eve. A witch would come in the night on a snare-spancel to every farm house and would milk the cows on May Eve night and when the farmer would milk the cows in the morning and when the farmer tried to make butter out of the milk they could not do it because all the fat was out of the milk. A few years after the farmer used get Holy Water and throw it all over around the house on May Eve and the witch would not come any more.
- My brother told me that he saw people out in Biddie night. The way they made the doll they would get old rags and put them around a stick and would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kevin Sheehy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- M. A. Sheehy
- Age
- 22
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
