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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.

   

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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.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Dan Doyle

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   Magheramore, Co. Westmeath