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   To present the taking of butter.
   a pinch of salt was always put in milk given to strangers
   nobody allowed in or near the house on May Day.
   An old woman from Crosshea Edgeworthstown had a habit of calling to certain houses on May Day. In each case the butter was gone. The man of the house in one case threw a stone at the first animal. he saw around on that day it was a hare. He struck the hare on the forehead: The old woman next appeared with a patch on her forehead.

   A rowan tree branch used to be put on the claibín of the churn to prevent the butter being taken.

   Told by Bernard Connor Winetown Rathowen
   78. Farmer. Nov 1937.

   

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   Its not lucky to build out of the West end of a house. In one case where it was done a boy of the house took a pain in his knee and died Mick Devine Ballygeer Johnston's Bridge Dromod, Leitrim who died over 20 years ago aged 90 said this happened to a brother of his

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   T.F. Mc Garry

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Rathowen, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Mick Devine

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Derryhasna, Co. Limerick