School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)

Location:
Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 183

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 183

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  3. XML “The Witch and Sixpence”
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    that a witch could be killed or wounded with a silver bullet or shot, he put a sixpence in his gun, took aim and fired. He hit the hare in the right foreleg and dripping blood it ran limping straight to this woman's home. Being easily traced from the fresh blood stains on the grass, he followed closely with gun in hand, and when he reached her door the woman was churning and her right forefinger was covered with blood, which she explained she had just cut on a piece of delph.
    The farmer who did the shooting raised ten of a family, was considered a hard-working, industrious, honest man and worthy of belief – so draw your own conclusion.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
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