School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Táite an tSléibhe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 182
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- Long ago before there were any doctors the people used to cure themselves by plants or by going across rivers.
There is a river behind Kelly's for curing mumps. The people believe in it yet. The way they would take to cure the mumps: they would put on ass' halter on the person who had the mumps and take them across three times to cure them.
The people believed long ago that if you put a spider and a spider web round a child's neck that they would not take the whooping cough.
The people make nettle broth and they drink it to cure the measles. The people believed long(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom P. Corrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Táite an tSléibhe, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Informant
- Francis Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- An Ghréach, Co. Mhuineacháin
