School: Cnapach
- Location:
- Knappagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Hionruaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 105
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- Long ago there were no doctors and the people were cured by charms, which they themselves made. These charms were handed down from generation to another, a man can give it to a woman but not to a man nor a woman cannot give it to another female, there are several cures or charms. The cure of the rose; the cure of the sprain, the cure of the sty, the cure of the toothache the cure of the rickets. This cure is made by a Blacksmith. The Blacksmith of the seventh generation can make it. Now a days we are not to give into those charms. There was a priest in Bawn Church speaking on the first comandment one Sunday about seven years ago and he was condemning charms. There was a half-witted man called Mickey Curry sitting in the front seat and he said it was a lie, and he bared his arm and held it up to the priest and said he got it cured by a charm, and was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corleckduff, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Owen King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Corleckduff, Co. Cavan
