Scoil: Gortnacart (uimhir rolla 15554)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Butter Cures (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   finishing the work the churn was opened and sure enough there was the churn covered with beautiful golden butter.
   Another custom very common amongst the people when butter had been stolen, was as follows.
   The shells from which the young chickens had been hatched in early spring were preserved in case of theft of butter. Indeed no person lent either butter or milk after May Day lest the person to whom they would give them would covet the butter and so steal it. However if the butter had been stolen, some of the egg shells were procured, and a portion of the milk from which the butter had disappeared was poured into them. Then part of the thatch of the house was got and the shells with the milk and thatch were burned together. The cure was complete then and the butter returned. The same milk which would not produce butter before this operation took place would produce plenty of butter afterwards, and all milk churned afterwards was as normal as before the butter had been stolen.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Annie Shovlin

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   86

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Doochill North, Co. Dhún na nGall