School: Achadh an Easa (roll number 9814)
- Location:
- Aghavas, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Laoise, Bean Uí Chuag
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 254
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Through the window of Mr Andersons house. It was believed that the hare was the butter witch, which went around sucking the cows. The butter witch was confined to be with a wounded leg, which was bitten by the hounds.
(2) A person, who was believed to be a butter witch and was supposed to have taken the butter from a person. When he entered that persons house if a piece was cut from the tail of his coat and burnt and put under the churn at next churning the butter was said to return.
(3) It was considered wrong for a person to come into a house, where churning was going on and ask for the loan of anything in case he would bring the butter.Rhyme
The Madam's Ass.
The shades of night were stealing o're
The verdant planes of Beaghamore
The wind had risen to a gale
Which thickly fell both rain and hail
The stout oak trees with fear did shake
Their branches too did crack and break
On to the earth falls birch and larch
Which shows that Winter's on its march
The rest is needless for to tell
You all remember it quite well(continues on next page)
- (continued from previous page)Through the window of Mr Andersons house. It was believed that the hare was the butter witch, which went around sucking the cows. The butter witch was confined to be with a wounded leg, which was bitten by the hounds.
(2) A person, who was believed to be a butter witch and was supposed to have taken the butter from a person. When he entered that persons house if a piece was cut from the tail of his coat and burnt and put under the churn at next churning the butter was said to return.
(3) It was considered wrong for a person to come into a house, where churning was going on and ask for the loan of anything in case he would bring the butter.
