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1. Churning (continued)

   

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   and bottom. The sides are round. It is about ten years old. The various parts are called a churn-staff, a churn and a lid.
   Butter is made two or three times every week in Summer and once a week in Winter.
   The woman of the house does the churning. Strangers who come in help at the work as they think it is very lucky to do so. It takes about one hour to churn.
   The churning is done by hand. The churn-dash is always moved up and down.
   When the butter gathers in a lump on the churn-staff the people know that it is ready. Water is nearly always poured in when churning.

   It was believed that witches could take away the good of the milk. It was also believed that if the people put a card of pins in a pot of water and boiled it on the fire that the witches could not then take away the good of the milk.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Mc Kinney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Sockar, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Kinney

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   48

   Address

   Sockar, Co. Donegal