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School: Muine Chonnalláin B.

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Bunnyconnellan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Lochnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 327

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    It is said that if a person had the mumps, and to go into the pigs-sty and to tell the pigs to take the mumps that he would be cured. It is also said that if a person had warts and to dip them in water which he would find in a hole in a stone that the warts would go in a short time. The people say that if a person had a toothache and to put a frog to his jaw that he would be cured. It is also said that if a person had the chin-cough and to get the food that the ferret turns away from without tasting that he would be cured. Another cure for the chin-cough is to ask a cure from a man riding on a
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Muldoon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Thady Muldoon
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilgarvan, Co. Mayo