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School: Behymore

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Behy More, Co. Mayo
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Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0162, Page 059

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    A cold or sore throat is often cured by hot buttermilk and sugar. The people in former times used to get for a stone bruise sugar and soap and mix it up and warm it and then put it on the stone-bruise that is the way they used to cure anyone that would have a stone-bruise.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maura Fuery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullauns, Co. Mayo

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    If you had the rose you would have to go to the person who had the cure and they would give you a bit of butter to rub to it and it would get better.
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    There is another cure for the chin cough that is, get the person that has the cough and put him across an asse's back three times. Then
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