School: Termon
- Location:
- Termon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Cooney
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- There was a woman in Waterloo named Brigid Colrick. She got five brown stones, four pence and sixpence and a little grain of oat meal in a porringer. You would stay one side of the cow and she the other side, she said some prayers while she handed the porringer to you. That was the cure of the Elf-shot.
Leddy tried to milk take back from the fairies. He had a hares skin cap and he pretended he was talking to the fairies so he would take back butter from them if you gave him a large sum of money(continues on next page)
