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School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)

Location:
Curraghsallagh, Co. Ros Comáin
Teacher:
Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 084

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  1. Local Cures

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    To stop bleeding :- (1) cobweb (2) feathers (3) briar leaf
    Mumps :- (1) Take person with mumps and swing it three times over the back of a black pig (2) go to the pig sty with the person that has the mumps and let it say three times "Mucla Mucla" give me the cure for the Mumps deicneach (3) marsh mallows applied to the neck
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    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Cafferky
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Cafferky
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    85
    Address
    Curraghsallagh, Co. Ros Comáin

  2. Local Cures

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    Toothache: -
    (1) to smoke tobacco (2) ashes (3) soda
    (4) ginger (5) if you see a new moon no matter where you are to kneel down and say a prayer
    (6) put on your left shoe and stocking before your right one (7) men to promise not to shave on Sunday (8) put a dead man's finger to it
    (9) to bleed the gum.
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