School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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“At Clay Lough in Co. Armagh there was a girl whose name was Kelly and she was a witch.”
(continued from previous page)into anything she liked. After she turned herself into rabbits or dogs or cats. She would go to farmhouses and steal milk from the cows. When the people would go to milk the cows they would see something running pass them in the door. When they would start to milk, the cows had no milk but the never found out what was happening to the cows. One day she got very sick and her parents sent for the priest. When he came he had a book and a bottle with him. He read out of the book for an hour and when he was finished he told her to go into the bottle and he give the bottle to her father
I told him to put the bottle in the press and never to open the press or she would come out
When them people died other people came to live in the house and they put out(continues on next page)