School: An Cheathrú Mhór
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Glacáin
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- (continued from previous page)(1) Tooth-ache :- The old people would keep a red coat up to their jaw until the tooth-ache would go.
(2) Some of the old people when they would find the tooth-ache coming on them, they would fill their pipe with tobacco and smoke till they would fall asleep. When they would awake the tooth-ache would be gone.
A head-ache :- When a person would get a head-ache long ago they would take a "gal" of the pope also.
(1) Ring worm :- When a person would get Ring-worm they would be brought to some man or boy who was a seventh son and he would rub his hand three times on the Ring-worm and then the Ring-worm was supposed to go.
(2) Some people used to go to an old man who was supposed to be able to make a charm and he would write around the Ring-worm and would say a form of magic words which was supposed to be able to cure the Ring-worm.
Worms:- If a person had worms in their stomach they would go to the sea(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Duggan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss Ellen Franklin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo