School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 143
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“Long ago there was a great lot of Witch craft, and the old people used to call it pishoges.”
(continued from previous page)stopped. The priest told her not to call him any more. He went up in the room. He started again and the cry started. At last the person that was outside the door asked him for "God's sake" to pull the iron of the spade out of her. The priest came and opened the door. It was some woman near by that was carrying the butter. The priest told her not to carry any more butter and she said, as long as she would live she would never again touch anything that way and she did not.
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“In olden times during the winter months it was a great practice for men to go out at night torching for birds while they were asleep in the hedges.”
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- Thomas Halpin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry