School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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   One time a man had cows in a byre away from the house, and in the mornings the cows used to be milked on him. He and another man decided to watch the byre and they had a gun with them. They saw a hare running out of the byre, but they did not see her going into it, and they wounded her. They traced her to a house and when they came to the house they looked through the window and seen her combing her hair and all blood. She was a witch who had changed herself with a hare to milk the cows. She had to change them to another byre and she did not come again.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)
   2. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Sharpe

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Pat Rooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tullyskeherny, Co. Leitrim

2. Hidden Treasure

   

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   Three people dreamt that a pot of gold was hidden in Benbo lake and one moonlight night they set to work to drain the lake. When they had a little drained off they saw an eel as thick as a man's body coming towards them so they left it there as they had heard people say that

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