School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 167
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- Butter Taking
A woman was living in a certain locality and when she used to churn she could not make the butter. There was a certain man who was supposed to have the knowledge of witchcraft. The woman told her story to him and he said to let him know when she would be churning again. She told him, and when he came he looked for the coulter of a plough ,and he told to be churning until it would be red and and the person who had her butter would come. He held up the iron and a neigbouring woman came for forgiveness.
I got this story from Mr James Nihill farmer
- Collector
- Michael Nihill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr James Nihill
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Clare
