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School: An Grianán (Mount Temple) B.

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Mount Temple, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
S. Ó Riain
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  1. Our Animals (continued)

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    away laughing, at how well they fooled the witch. If the witch had to know that the cow was going to bring forth a calf, before the farmer, she would take the butter and milk on the farmer.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Local Beliefs

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    It is said that if a man comes into your house while you are churning and puts a coal in his pipe and brings the coal out in his pipe that he can take the butter of the milk.
    It is said that if a man draws a hay rope through another person's field on a May morning before the sun rises that he can take the butter of the milk on the farmer who owns the field.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dan Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Magheramore, Co. Westmeath