School: Durrow (B.) (roll number 3517)
- Location:
- Durrow, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Sabhaois
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- (continued from previous page)Cure for butter stealing
If your butter is being stolen get the coulter of a plough or any part of the plough that does be in the ground; redden it in the fire and the people who are stealing the butter would have to come and give it back.On a May morning take a turn at the churning or you would be suspected of stealing the butter.If you cut a bush in a rath 'fairy bush" some misfortune is sure to happen to you.
If corn is sown in a field in which there is a rath the corn would begin to die away when about to ripen.On a May morning if a person comes with a black bottle asking for milk don't give it to him.If you catch some of the shower that falls on a May day you have a cure for all diseases.(continues on next page)
