School: Leitir Mhór (roll number 15944)

Location:
Lettermore, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilís Ní Bhaoghaill
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 170

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 170

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: Leitir Mhór
  2. XML Page 170
  3. XML “The Three Witches”

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 were three women who were witches. They had been chased from Connacht to the Inver banks where they lived for years in a cave down below the Inver houses. For a long time they lived on human beings. They used to kill their victims with a "Mideach", whatever it was. When it struck them it killed them instantly. These three old witches used to sell "dilisk" and sloke which they picked off the rocks and beach at Inver. One day as they were out through the country selling some of this, they reached Meenabraden. They went into a house where there was a very fine stout girl. They invited her to their cave for a
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Teresa Gallagher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meenagran, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Gallagher
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Meenagran, Co. Donegal