School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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Mumps: 1) Bring the patient three times round the pigsty saying the words “ leicne, leicne, chugat a’ leicne”
(2) Put the patient three times over and under an ass repeating the same words , (The animal is supposed to take the disease).
Warts:- (1) Look out for a black snail and rub the warts with it. Hang the snail up on a bush and the warts will disappear as the snail withers away.
(2) Rub the warts with a fasting spit for three mornings in the Name of the Blessed Trinity.
3) Cut a potatoe in parts. Bleed the warts and rub the blood on each part. Roll them up and put them away somewhere, when the warts will disappear.
Chincough (whooping cough):- “A ferrets leavings” is given to the person suffering from this disease. (Milk given to the ferret to drink(continues on next page)
