School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)Strain
The cure is bequethed from father to son.
The seventh son, or seventh daughter, has a charm that can cure different ailments by this charm.
The cure of the strain is wrought by prayer. A man who has the cure can give it to a woman and a woman can give it to a man, but no woman can give it to another woman.
Persons who have the cure of the strain get it from their parents when dying.
The Stine.
Nine gooseberries thorns getting hold of each thorn, and prodding the eye which the stine is in.
The nineth thorn is thrown across the persons shoulder, and he is to bless himself while he is prodding the eye with each thorn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Morgan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
