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School: Billis

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Billis, Co. Monaghan
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M. Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 310

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    The process known as blinking the churn is go into a house (where churning is going on) and to depart again without mention of the churning or of lending a hand.
    Evil averted by "taking a brash" or "throwing your weight (of butter on the churn" that is to churn for a while.
    The butter would be taken by the visitor - neglecting to (?)
    -not to poke the fire while the stranger is in - is an added precaution to his not
    Blinking the churn."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
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