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1. The Story of a Witch

   

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   Many hundreds of years ago there lived an old witch with her husband and children. One day she told her husband she was going on a holiday. She left the house and turned herself into a cat. She went into one of the neighbour's houses. The man of the house had one cat and he did not want two. As he was a very neighbourly man he went into the house next door and asked the man there did he want a cat. The other man said he did surely because he had no cat and the farm houses were full of mice. The first man went home and brought the strange cat back with him. When he went out again the man of the house said it was a very funny cat because she could talk like a human being.
   The cat lived with them some weeks in quietness until one day the man of the house was going to town. She heard the woman of the house saying to him to buy her a pair of boots. The cat rose up and said "Please buy me a pair of boots that will lace up to my knees for the cold days of winter". The man began to laugh and said that he would buy the boots but when he returned home again he had no boots for the cat. The cat got very angry and began to toss and tumble the furniture in

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Catherine Logue

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballylawn, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mr John Logue

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballylawn, Co. Donegal