School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 223
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- Once upon a time there lived an old man who had a very good cow. In the morning he went out to milk the cow and when he went into the byre a great big hare came out of the byre; it ran down the street.
The man followed it and it dis-appeared. So he went up again to the byre to milk the cow and she had no milk for the hare had milked the cow. She never came back because he put a silver coin into his gun and shot her. She was a witch and the only way to shoot a witch is with a silver coin.
- Collector
- Hugh Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Willie Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Greencastle, Co. Donegal
