School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)the cure for sciatica. She is Mrs Woods. Several people from this district have visited her. She has to be fasting until twelve o'clock on the days she makes the cure. The cure is made with stones and water and certain prayers are said. Many people declare that they have been cured by her.
- The cure of a sty in the eye is to get ten thorns off a gooseberry bush and throw one away across the right shoulder and point the other one at the eye and say, "Prib a Prib, huga do spionnán, spionnán, spionnán huga do Prib." A person getting this cure done would have to be fasting and the parents of the person doing it must be alive. The cure of the chincough is to take the milk left behind by a ferret. The cure of warts is to leave a black snail hanging on a brush and bless yourself for ten mornings opposite him. The cure of the measles is to boil the root of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Anne Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Alice Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Monalia, Co. Monaghan
