School: Mainistir na Féile (B.) (roll number 16264)
- Location:
- Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: S. Ó Háinlí
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0494, Page 109
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mainistir na Féile (B.)
- XML Page 109
- XML “Piseoga”
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)He bought them home and boiled them and the evil went when they were boiled.
During the months of May and November the people would put a pinch of salt in the milk when they would be giving it to you, fearing that you might have evil intentions, but they would give you no milk MayDay.
(no title)
“There was a dairy-man and his wife living together in a house, and when they used to get up in the morning to milk the cows, they used to have no milk.”
One night the man stayed up to see who was milking the cows. About one o'clock he heard a woman coming to the cow-house. When she came in she put a half-crown upon every cow's back and then she started to milk them.
The man was going to go up to her but he got afraid and he stole into the house for the holy water and he shook it on himself. Then he went towards her and caught her and he knew her. She ran away from him then . She never again came there.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Dan O Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Abbeyfeale Hill, Co. Limerick
