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School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)

Location:
Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
John F. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 056

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    Whooping cough: If a person met a man with a white horse whatever cure he would give it would cure the whooping cough.
    Ringworm: If a person caught 26 worms, hung 12 of them on a bush and let the rest free. While the worms that were hung on the bush were dying the ringworm was going.
    Headaches were cured by smoking a pipe of tea of drinking a strong cup of tea.
    Warts were cured by water that was resting on a rock.
    If the person was looking for the water it would not cure him.
    Sore eyes were cured by washing them in cold tea.
    A boy that never saw his father had a cure for sore eyes. He had to blow his breath three times into the
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