School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)

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   him. He saw his neighbour bringing the dead calf and burying it in his land. He did not mention it to any person but went to Biddy Earley the next morning. When she saw him she told him all that had happened him since he left before. She also told him that it was not the first animal his neighbour had buried in his land that he had a number of them buried there. She told him to go back to his neighbour and ask him to dig up all the animals he had buried in his land, and she also gave him a bottle and told him to shake the contents of it where the animals would be dug up. So the man returned home and with a good deal of arguing he got his neighbour to do as Biddy Earley had said. So when everything was fixed, all the butter that had gone from the man for the past three months came back gradually to him, and the other man had never much luck afterwards.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. Biddy Early (~186)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Brassil

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Poulaphuca, Co. Clare

   Informant

   James Brassil

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Poulaphuca, Co. Clare