School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Bráthair Naiti
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- XML “Cure for the Whooping-Cough”
- XML “Cure for Warts”
- XML “Cure for the Hiccups”
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- Collector
- Patrick Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Miss C Gillespie
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 30
- Address
- Derry, Co. Derry
- Get ten pieces of knotted straw bury one of them. Then rub the other nine on the warts three times a day for three days. Then bury them and when they have rotted. The warts disappear.
- The first hickup that comes say there goes one of them. when the second one comes say there goes two of them. if a third one comes say there goes three of them and the fourth one will never come