At Scorrybreck they were kept from returning by tossing earth between them and the sea, and burying-ground earth was thought most effective. On the evening they came ashore a voice was heard from the sea calling them by name in a rhyme, naming cows of different colours, black, brown, brindled, red and white-faced.
Campbell thinks it more probable that the superiority of certain stock was the origin of the idea of fairy cattle, rather than the reverse.
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