The Exeter Times, 1879-10-30, Page 7OCTOBER. . 30, 1870
S1IOKING A WITCH.
THE TTN ES
A DONEGAL LEGEND.
(Concluded froui lust !Keck.)
So they smothered the witch : ehe
was chid and dead the next day when
the door was opoued ; and as there was
ilo coroners' inquests in those days,
her being found dead excited but little
attention. indeed, at the time of the
Uuiou, behind was in so disorganized
a Ftate that the death of once old woman
in her bed was but little noticed. The
Iuauner of her end was known to her
old neighbors around Talmo}, Lough ;
but it was never spokeu of except in
whispers, though years afterward Par-
ents pointed to the ruined wall -steads
upon the hill -sills, and told their
little children what the 'itch's fate had
been. The writer was told the story
by an old man whose mother had lived
in Tauluey at the time.
On our venturing to doubt the ex-
istence of witches at the present day,
he declared there was then (August,
1877), to his oertaiu knowledge, a
witch living close to his farm ; and be
Iloiutod out a pretty, fair -hailed wo-
man, mother of a large family. who
]las only oue cow, yet sells quantities
of butter.
She has a slight figure, as well as
blue eyes and flaxen hair. and we
tnoug ht her a pleasant sight as she
tripped along the Tamuey road to mar-
icet, followed by her little crowd of
\white -howled children. The uuiuittat-
ed, at least, look at her with pteasure;
but the Roman Ceitholaos cross them-
belvoa furtively when they meet her,
and the old and ignorant among her
Protestant neighbors regarded her with
•evidect fear and dislike.
"Du you mean to say that she could
-draw butter away from your churn 2"
w.e asked our old friend the farmer.
"i1'rotu is she, miss ; there's nu dev-
ilment too hard or too tad for thee
witch•womau. Sure she turtle hersel'
.iuto a hare every sumsier nicht, au'
milks the cows in the fields. I ba'
started a haro from among my sin cows
yin this very field, an' as sure as I'm a
liviu sinner, it made for you hole in
.the back o' Norah's house."
"Do you really think Norha's the
Imre ?"
"Think it, miss ?" God h1eFs your
innocent wit 1 I'm sure of it. It wad
be a charity to the countryside to shot
,tier wi' a bit o' silier—in troth, if 1 was
to be, I'd do it
as souple as I used
>nlysel' "
"Does it take long to turn her back
auto a woman ?"
"Is it long miss ? Nob a minute.
She just ssys a wheen words that the
bad man learned her, an' she's in her
sin shape again."
"Is Norah the only witch in the
•country 2"
"Na, na.; there's her mother •at Cool.
Amick, and her 'grandmother at Mil -
lord:; all the breed of these Taylors
was witches. But.there's warlocks too :
I mind'to ha' seenlano o' them when 1
nae•a wee ohiel the bight o' my stick."
"'Oh, please tell •mo all about it."
Twits stretchingin the old 'farmer's
,own meadow,behind the witch's cottage,
•anathe stood near me, leaning on his
stick.; and •as '1 washed iu the 'delicate
•or gorgeous touts of any picture, I lisen-
'ed to his werid ale.
"It wasiin the County Derry," he
!began '"That all my people was horn
and bred. The Lorry gentlemen was
.groat riders, an'.fond of hunting, and
=1ft was aye a spree for the wee boys to
follow the hunt, I could run nigh hand
ecs'faet as a hound myself in them days.
'One day (1 mind it as weel as if it was
.yesterday) we:couldna start a hare ara,
an' the gentlemen was •alit out o' pati-
ence, when •we'carne upon an ould man
sitting :cabling shoes, an' herding
cows, .in a wild kind o' place below the
'Bird stown Mountarll4.
" 'Wad your honors wish me to start
.a bare for yes .?' says the ould man
'ricin' to his feet.
" 'Ay, surely;' says the gentlemen,
"for we camas find s, hare this day; at,
:all at n tl."
"'Wee!,'says lice ould man. 'if I
fend a hare in thou wood,' says he, 'will
;yez give me five abilliu' when the run
is over 2'
'Aye surely, good man, you'll get
the five shilliu', says they.
"Wi' that the ould fellow down wi'
ilio awl,. and the 'brogue he was cob.
Ming, an' into a clump o', bushes that
was about a hundred yards off the
knowe.where we found him.
"He wasna three 'ninnies in the wood
till a big here ran out, an' the hounds
after it it, an' awa the country. Wool,
we ht'd the best run o' the season, but
the Bounds ennldna get up wi' the bare
ave ; and at last it brought them back
to the kuowe fornoust the wood, and
ran in among the trees, just where it
ran out in the morning. Tho hounds
lost it there, an' the ould fellow stepped
o' the wood an' up to the huntsman.
'An wh ir's my five shilliu' 2' says he.
Weel, ho got the money, an' then he
smiled ub the gentleman's face an'
'Wasn't that nasi run for an ould
man 2' says he. Now, my ladies that's
as true as Gospel. I ha' seen guar
things in my time. Will 1 tell you
about the black pig that I found in the
botato field.
"Pltase do ; I should like to hear
it,"
These wild fancios suited the sur-
rounding landscape. Witchcraft seem-
ed to have a fitting home among the
mouutnin lakes and ragged hills of
Donegal, and fairy -land might exist in
the delle and slopes, amid bowers of
eglantine where Titania could have
slept.
The farmer'a stories had, for the
mom.3n1, all the effect of truth : he had
left "boastful youth" very far behind
him, and we rejoined to have made
his acquaintance in his "narrative old
age."
"My father," be began, "was yard.
man to his honor Sir Wiliam Francis,
of Castle Francis, in the county Derry,
when one summer evening him and me
seen a wee slip o' a black pig running
along the potato ridges in his honor's
home park. I was a bravo runner, an'
I after the pig. I caught it, an' held it
till my father Dame up, and between
us we got it into the yard at the
castle, and shut in a sty to itself. His
honor, Sir William, made inquiries far
an' wide to find out if any one had Int"
a wee black pig ; in troth I willna Fay,
for fear I'd tell a lie, but I do think he
be had it printed in the newspaper ;
but naebody wad own pig, in' dell a
ane wad tak' a present o' it.
"So there it stopped, au' it ate an'
ate, till it wee that heavy it conldnn
get in an' out at the door o' the sty,
an' a bed had to be made fort in the
cart shed.
"It got on to bo November, an' the
butcher came to look at the master's
pigs.
"'Colne, Gallagher, an' lock at the
pig that dropped frae the clouds,' says
Sir William.
"Those was his honor's very words,
an' my father an' the men in the yard
limited at each other when they heerd
hi in.
"'Thon's the best o' them all,' says
Gallagher ; 'he's seven hundred -weight
if he's a pound.'
"'Weil, you can kill him the first
thing tomorrow morning,' says Sir
William, turning awn, oarless like, frac
the door o' the cart shed.
"We didna wish to kill him, because'
o' the q'uar way he come to the place ;
but the'rnaste'r's bidding had to be done;
so we' got a big vab of boiling water
ready, 'for we knowed the carnage wad
be heavy ; and then we went to the
cart •sll.ed ? I'll no just say, for fear
I'd tell a lie, but, anyway, Pm sure my
father bad the fire made to boil it.
�'Woel, ymar ladyship, when we went
to frill the pig,thore was nae pig in the
shed, and there was nae pig to be seen
anywhere, though we searched the
.caantry far an' wide.
"''His bonor said we be to ha' left the
doer open ; but I put it to you, how
could a pig weighing seven hundred.
weight, ha' disappeared so that nae
track o' him could be found ? an' who,
could ha' stole a pint o' thou size)'"
"What do yon think really happen.
ed?"
"I think the pig heered the talk
about killing him, an' went awn.
"But what was he ? Was he a fairy,
a warlock, or what ?"
"If 1 know, my lady 1 but this I do
know —all look left Castle Frauais from
that day. His honor lost a lawsuit ho
was ougaged in, and his big bull that
was brurg over frae England, an' %vac
worth twa hundred pound,choked Ihiln-
sel' wi' a turnip. Troth it's a danger-
ous thing to despise lack that coulee to
your door 1"
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