School: Ráth an Tóiteáin (Burnfort), Malla (roll number 11249)
- Location:
- Burnfort, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Mac Óda (Archdeacon)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 259
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- (continued from previous page)It was this woman who was a witch that had turned herself into a hare.
One morning there was a priest coming from a sick call. When he came to a certain lane his horse shied, and the priest saw coming down the lane two legs and they covered with brown hair. It was the woman of the witchcraft. "In the name of all that is sacred," said the priest, "what is the trouble with you?" At that moment she fell dead. She was buried in a sandpit, and the people burned her house.It is said that after some years the rabbits get into the same breed and they all die.
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- Collector
- Dan Mulcahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bottlehill, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mulcahy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bottlehill, Co. Cork
