School: Grange (roll number 3759)

Location:
Grange, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Tomás de Búrca
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    be much the better for refusing her and that there would be something to be told the next day.
    When the old woman went home on the day that the Streeda men gave her the fish she called in a small boy from a neighbouring house . She got a tub of water and put a caption , or butter dish , into it and she told the boy to watch it.
    She sat in the corner and said some magic words . She asked the boy was there anything happening to the water.
    At last the coupon turned upside down in the water and she shouted to the boy ,"That will do , my boy, you my go home now."
    The Streeda men and some of the Donegal men lodged in a house together that night.
    Next morning when the fishermen were going out to haul their nets one of the Donegal men put on , in mistake , a vest belonging
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. hags (~139)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr Michael Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 75
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo