School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)

Location:: Bofield, Co. Mayo
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the string in a very dark corner so that no one could see it. After a few minutes he would take out the string and if the knots were lossened {loosened} there were worms in the man or child. A man named Micheal Glacken from Bofield went to England. When he was in England a chaff went into his eye. A cousin of his that lived in Bofield made a charm for him, and after she had the charm made she saw the chaff that was in the man's floating in a cup of water, in Bofield. When you are walking along the road and if you meet a man riding on a white horse, and if you ask the rider to give you a cure
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
John Moran
Gender

Male
Address

Bofield, Co. Mayo

Informant
Pat Moran
Gender

Male
Address

Bofield, Co. Mayo

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