School: Shannagh (roll number 8400)

Location:
Shannagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
J. Hutchman
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 034

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 034

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: Shannagh
  2. XML Page 034
  3. XML “A Story”

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. Once upon a time there was a man who had five cows. He milked them every night and used to churn their milk but no butter came on it. He then went to a woman he knew and told what had happened and she promised to put a stop to the trouble.
    The next night when they churned the milk, to their surprise butter came on it. When they had it nearly churned, a woman came to the door and asked if any butter was coming on the milk and they told her there was. A couple of minutes later they heard a noise outside. The man ran for his gun, went outside and walking over to the byre door he saw a woman standing at the door. He shot at her and thought he had killed her, but when he ran to the spot what did he see but a hare picking the shot out of its leg.
    It appeared that the woman was a witch who could change herself into a hare when she wished. From that day out however the farmer had no more trouble with his butter or milk.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Groary
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Informant
    Mr James Mc Groary
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Shannagh, Co. Donegal