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   In my grandfathers house, this woman who used to come in every time they would be going to churn and ask for a cup of salt. They were for months without getting a bit of butter on the churn. After a time they remarked her coming and they refused her and ever afterwards they had plenty of butter.
   There was a witch in this area named Brigid Brazil and she used to take the butter. The people used to put irons in the fire and bolt the door when churning. She used to come and start the churning and tell the people to take the irons out of the fire and she gave them the butter she took before.
   There was another with who could change herself into any shape she wished. She usually took the form of a hare and sucked the milk from the cows it the pasture with the result that the people had neither milk nor butter. One morning a man was out hunting with two dogs. He came across her nefarious work. The dogs chased her around the field and then she took off to her own

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire C. Ní Thoirdhealbhaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Newbridge, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pádhraig Ó Thoirdhealbhaigh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Newbridge, Co. Galway