School: Corcaghan (roll number 16129)
- Location:
- Corcaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: F. Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 228
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- The people around this country have a lot of cures for diseases. The cure for the whooping cough is to meet a man with a pieball pony and ask him for a penny or a half penny and buy sugarcandy with it. You give this to the person who is ill and it will cure them or get a briar with two roots and put it under your head and sleep on it.
The cure for a sty on the eye is to get ten thorns of a gooseberry bush and throw one away. Then point the others at the eye and say "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
The cure for the mumps is to go under a mare ass that never had a foal or go to a pig house and rub your cheek against the door post and you say. "Pig, pig, take the mumps"
The cure for the strain is to go to the seventh son or daughter who has the power of curing it by saying some prayers.
The cure for ringworm is to go to some local man that has the cure of it and he mixes up a plaster with herbs.
The cure for cancer is to go to a man who knows how to mix up some stuff with herbs
