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School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)

Location:
Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 386

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    Long ago in Ireland the people used to be able to take away other peoples butter by charms. It is said that as the people would be milking their cows the person that would be taking the butter would be watching in the field in the shape of a hare. It is said also that the people would come into the house when the people would be churning and start helping them to churn the butter.
    The remedy was to shoot the hare with a crooked sixpence and when the person would come into the home to put bars of iron into the fire and as the iron would be getting hot it would start to burn the person and he would have to go.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. charms (~104)
    2. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mairsil Ní Gabann
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs William Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gneeve, Co. Cavan