School: Robinstown (roll number 9039)
- Location:
- Robinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Teresa Coyne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0698, Page 424
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- (continued from previous page)Who had the cure for the running worm. The person who wished it to be cured was obliged to go to the mans house. The man kept in the house unsalted butter which he used for the purpose. First he prayed over it and then he put it in a jam pot which he covered carefully. The directions he gave were :-
Not to lose one piece of butter, to place it on each sore every night until the butter was used On the last evening that the butter was used the person obliged to place apiece of it in his ears as well as on the sore and this had to be done before sunset Cure of the Mumps
To go into a pig sty and place a haltar on the pig and drive him around the sty three times saying, "Lechna, Lechna, take away the lechna"Cur of pain in your back
Put an ass in a shed and walk under him.Cure of whooping cough
If you find a frog without looking for it put it in a bottle and if the frog dies within a certain time the cough is cured.
- Collector
- Moira Carroll
- Gender
- Female
