School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)(2) A priest was going by a house one time and he saw a woman inside sitten' inside a ring of crocks of water an' she sayin "come all to me, come all to me". She was stealin' her neighbours' butter by power of the divil. The priest never thinkin' says for fun "come half to me, come half to me". They were churrin' in priests house a while after this and one of girls (servant) says to priest "We cant move the staff in the churn" (there was so much butter in it.) The poor old gawn of a witch only got half the butter an' the priest got the other half.(3) Wan time before me mother was married she was milkin' the cows. A friend (relations) of her own with red hair was goin' past an' she took the milk off the cows. Me mother went to a priest who lived where Currans now are (in Drumbuie) and he said he would bring back milk for a bottle ow whiskey an' also bring the woman that took milk screeching before them. They didnt' want to see the woman at all an' the priest only brought back the milk.
- Informant
- Thomas Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghnaskew, Co. Monaghan
