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1. Biddy Early and the Butter

   

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   If Biddy Early came into a house and the people churning she would take the butter from them. One time there was an old woman out in Clare. She had the finest "bawn" of cows you could lay eyes on and during one week not a bit of butter would come in the churn if she was churning till morning. Nothing but froth and an awful smell out of it. There was a calf after dying on the woman's neighbour. Biddy Early had the dead calf dug up and buried in the woman's land. While the dead calf was in the land she couldn't get any bit of the butter. She told the priest about Biddy Early and he hunted her out of the place. From that time Biddy Early lived near Feakle and before that she lived near Lough Grainne.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. Biddy Early (~186)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bunnaglass, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Michael Kelly

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Bunnaglass, Co. Galway