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School: Croisín (Crusheen) (B. & C.)

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Crusheen, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Bruaideadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593B, Page 20_015

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    Cures 24-3-'38
    In olden times the people used to have a lot of quear cures for pains and other diseases also namely when you kill a Fox to take out his tongue and save it and it is supposed to be good to take out a thorn.And it is also supposed that if you had the whooping cough if you met a man with a white horse and to ask him what would cure the whooping cough and the man would say some words .The cure for cuts in olden times was a dirty cobweb to stop the bleeding. For a burn they used to make up an ointment called burnt ointment this
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Scannláin
    Gender
    Male