Volume: CBÉ 0190

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 040

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 040

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  1. People pray to St John for to cure the toothache. When a person has a very bad toothache he should go to Mass on a weekday, and pray to God to take away the pain when thee Sacred Host wold be rising at the Elevation.
    When a person has the hiccoughs he should think of where he was in the chapel when the Sacred Host was rising. There was a man down at Kilmore Quay, and he had the hiccoughs for two days and two nights, and he tried everything, but all was no use. Somebody told him of this cure, so he began to think where he was in the chapel, and while he was thinking he lost the hiccoughs. In order to get cured of them you must forget about them. If a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    9 April 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant