School: Achadh na Habhla

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1. A Cure for King's Evil (continued)

   

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   use of this cure.
   Told by an old man named Tully, Redhills, Co. Cavan

   

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2. Cures for Toothache

   

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   1. You are told to go to a grave, and kneel upon it, say three Paters, and three Aves for the soul of the dead, then chew a handful of grass, taken from the grave, and spit it out. The toothache will never afterwards trouble you.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
            1. medicine for human sicknesses
               1. toothache (~180)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs D. Agnew

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lattacrossan, Co. Monaghan

3. Cures for Toothache

   

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   II. The two jaw-bones of a haddock will allay toothache ever since the miracle of the loaves and fishes
   III. Three mouthfuls of cold water to be taken in the morning, fasting, in the name of the Trinity.
   IV. Some laurel leaves are laid on a folded

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