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1. Churning

   

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   Once upon a time there was a girl working with a priest in Castletown. This day she was going to churn and she was going to the well for water and when she was going she got tangled up in yarn and went for the water. And when she came home she put the yarn into a drawer and got ready the churn. When she began to churn, she could not move it with butter, so she told the priest, when the priest came in he threw the yarn into the fire and said "Now every one will have their own butter." After that she had the usual supply of butter. If you are the first to get water out of a well or pump on May Day and put it in the churn, you will have butter all the year round.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Paul Reid

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mr Michael Reid

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 58

   Address

   Knock, Co. Meath

2. Churning

   

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   It is said that if you throw out the milk the cow will go dry.

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