School: Lurganboyce (roll number 14224)
- Location:
- Lurganboy, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Antoine Ó Cairbre
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1088, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)In this district one such woman lived many years ago. Her neighbour had no butter on any churning. In her distress she asked a wise man what should she do and he told her that this witch sometimes changed herself into a black hare and that this hare could be shot with a crooked sixpence. The woman went home and a few days later a black hare came about the house. She got a crooked sixpence and her husband put it into the gun. He pursued the hare, fired and broke its leg. The next night he visited the house of the witch and found her lying in bed with a broken leg. She was the one who always destroyed the churning and got power from the Devil to change herself into a black hare.
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- Collector
- Anthony Carbery
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
