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School: Scoil an Chlochair, Bunclody

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Bunclody, Co. Wexford
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    Whooping-cough.
    You should get the hair of the mother of seven children and boil it in milk and give it to the child who has the whooping-cough and the child would be cured
    Erisiplis
    You should get up at sunrise for nine mornings and put your head in a rabbit burrow.
    Toothace
    If you had a toothace you would be cured if you said the following words "Peter sat on a marble stone Jesus came to him alone an said "Peter Peter why dost thou weep" "O Lord My God this my toothace"
    Kitty Nolan
    Abbeydown
    Got from Mr. Patrick Nolan
    Abbeydown
    Clonegal
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Nolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Abbeydown, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Nolan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Abbeydown, Co. Wexford