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School: Maigh Locha (Cailíní)

Location:
Moylough, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Challaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 095

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    and oil is put in where it was taking out.
    3. To make a little cloth bag and put a stone in for each wart then throw it on the road and the first one to pick it up would take them.
    4. To rub treacle on the wart for nine mornings.
    5. To get water on a stone without looking for it, then rub it on the wart three times "In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost"
    6. To go to an old chapel and rub the wart on a stone on the ruins of it is a cure.
    Hiccoughs
    1. To get a fright and they would go.
    2. To drink nine drops of water and throw the tenth away.
    3. To get a grain of sugar without asking for it, is also a cure.
    Toothache.
    Men who were accustomed to toothache never
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moylough, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Welby
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Annaghmore East, Co. Galway