School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 136
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- There are many cures performed in our district, namely for warts, ringworm, whooping-cough, measles and chicken-pox. It is said that if a person who has warts gets a black snail, takes him up and rubs him on the warts, then blesses himself and hangs the snail on a throny bush, as the snail dies the warts die also.
The seventh son is supposed to cure ringworm and also wildfire. There is a man named James Keenaghan from Moneen who can cure ringworm; he is supposed to pray for the person whom the ringworm affects and after three journeys the ringworm is cured.
Another belief is, if a person has ringworm the parent is to watch every horse and cart that passes and if he chances to see a white horse, ask the owner, what would he give the child, no matter what the owner tells him to give the child if it is given it will cure him.
- Collector
- Eileen O' Toole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyscarvan, Co. Westmeath
