School: Bun an Fhionnghlaise (roll number 11454)

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1. Pishrogs Connected with Butter

   

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   1) If a person sings while they are milking the cow gives more milk.

   2) If the cow is left in the stable all day she gives less milk

   3) If a person sells or gives away any of the butter or butter-milk out of the first churning of milk after a cow calves she will not give as much the next time

   4) If a person washes a churn beside a river with a beezum and throws the beezum there the fairies (f) take the butter from them.

   5) If a person did not put a pinch of salt and a quenched coal under the churtn when they are churning the fairies would take the butter from them

   6) If a person went into a house where the people were churning and did not churn they would have the butter taken away with them.

   7) If a person cannot get butter to come on the churn they put a piece of a plough in the heart of the fire till it gets red with the heat and the butter will come back

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Mc Nulty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Roosky, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Anthony Mc Nulty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Roosky, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Anthony Mc Nulty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Roosky, Co. Mayo