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School: Dún Beag (C.)

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Doonbeg, Co. Clare
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Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabháin Bean an Ághasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0626, Page 294

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  3. XML “The Rinnagonnaght Witches”
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  1. The Rinnagonnaght Witches (continued)

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    had lashed out repeatedly with her terrible knife and the furious galloping of the animal made her miss her object, even the horses tail was cut clear from the bone. Let it be a long or a short day that poor man never forgot his escape.
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  2. Cures

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    1. If you had a sore finger to put a cobweb or green grass on it.
    2. If you had a wart to cut the wart off and to squeeze the juice of a daisy into it.
    3. If you had cough to boil costerwane dearg and drink the juice of it.
    4. If you had the chin cough to go out before a man with a white horse.
    Or to boil the leg of a Grananoge and drink the soup.
    5. If you got the burn of a nettle to rub a dock leaf to it.
    6. If you had consumptioin to get three ribs out of a rat and three blades
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlín Ní Aodha
    Gender
    Female