School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0678, Page 059
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- People in the country dont light the fire till after the cows are milked on May Day for fear any wicked woman would cast a spell on their butter and draw it away. They say the evil woman watches and if she sees the smoke before the milking she throws a ball of something stiff in the shape of a roll of butter towards the smoke saying Butter of this smoke on my milk and so on till she has the butter taken with her.
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- Collector
- Melda Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
