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School: An Cnoc (B.) (roll number 16122)

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Knock, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0108, Page 266

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    Sore Eyes A touch of an old gold ring.
    Headache A halter with which anyone had been hanged wrapped around the head, or the moss grown on a human skull powdered and taken as snuff.
    Consumption Cured by cutting the pads of the hands and feet of the person suffering, and tied in a rop cut from his own clothes and waved over his head three times and then buried in some unknown place.
    Bad Cough Snails boiled in barley water
    Toothache Anyone suffering from toothache can be cured by smelling a dead man's tooth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Jennings
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Jennings
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    95
    Address
    Eskerymorilly, Co. Mayo